ABSTRACT
Traditionally, the study of social change has been the concern of people in the fields of political science, sociology, and economics. Some have gone so far as to utilize these theories to support the assertion that national character, for which the term human nature is conveniently substituted and social change, by implication, not subject to control and planning. In contrast, the political school maintains that societies and social movements can be most meaningfully understood in terms of political and socioeconomic analysis. Mr. Glaser places himself firmly in the political school. The burden of the available work in the scholarly disciplines concerned with social relations indicates that there are distinctive patterns of reaction to given situations which may be used to distinguish the populations of particular national states. The problem was defined as one of encouraging those institutional forms which would give a positive orientation to German qualities and discouraging those institutional forms which fostered destructive manifestations.
