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  Graham Wallas Biography / Biography of Graham Wallas Biography
Graham Wallas (1858-1932) was a British sociologist, political scientist, antirationalist, and proponent of a psychological approach to the study of politics.
The son of a Sunderland clergyman, Graham Wallas endured a strict puritanical upbringing, and it was not without some relief that he left home to attend Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Wallas thought that the introduction of psychological aspects into the examination of the basis of politics would reopen many of the traditional discussions, such as that concerning representative government.
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 Liberal Democrat History Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Graham Wallas was born in Sunderland on 31 May 1858, the son of an Evangelical clergyman of the Church of England who later became Rector of Shobrooke in Devon, where the young Wallas was brought up.
Wallas worked for years on The Life of Francis Place (1898), analysing the activities of an early nineteenth-century radical who played a notable part in changing the labour legislation of his day.
Wallas’ point was that progressives needed a clear﷓eyed understanding of the frailities of the democratic process.
www.liberalhistory.org.uk /record.jsp?type=page&ID=109&liberalbiographies=liberalbiographies   (949 words)

  
 Graham Wallas
With the support of the Fabians Graham Wallas was elected to the London School Board in 1894 and chaired its School Management Committee.
Graham Wallas was the most kindly of human beings, immensely stimulating and encouraging to the young.
Graham Wallas grinds on, making no personal claims, impersonal and almost callous in his manner, an English gentleman in his relations with women to whom flirtation, let alone an intrigue, would seem underbred as well as unkind and dishonourable.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUwallas.htm   (674 words)

  
 Wallas, Graham. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He joined (1886) the Fabian Society and was the author of one of the Fabian Essays.
In 1914, Wallas became professor of political science at the Univ. of London.
Wallas wrote a biography of Francis Place (1898), Human Nature in Politics (1908), The Great Society (1914), Our Social Heritage (1921), and The Art of Thought (1926).
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 Search Results for "Graham"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Graham, Billy, (William Franklin Graham) (gra´m) (KEY), 1918-, American evangelist, b.
Charlotte, N.C. Graham was ordained a minister in the Southern Baptist Church...
Graham, Thomas, 1805-69, Scottish chemist, best known for research in diffusion in both gases and liquids that led to his formulation of Graham's law.
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 Wallas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Graham Wallas was a political theorist and psychologist.
Weakening commitment, time, and a growing disagreement between his own views and those of the Fabian led to Wallas' resignation from the Society in 1904.
In 1914, he was one of a small number of intellectuals to protest against British involvement in the war.
www.lse.ac.uk /lsehistory/wallas.htm   (217 words)

  
 Graham Wallas' model   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The early twentieth-century reformer Graham Walls, got somewhat nearer the sourc of the creative process, which he outlines in his book, The Art of Thought.
Wallas is right when he says there must first be a Preparation stage: people have to become knowledgable in some field before they may expect ideas to "dawn" on them in that area.
Roger von Oech presents a model of the creative process based on the Wallas model.
members.optusnet.com.au /~charles57/Creative/Brain/wallis_intro.htm   (352 words)

  
 Wallas Family Crest
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Wallas coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
Heraldry is defined as the hereditary art or science of blazoning, the description is appropriate technical terms of Coats-of-Arms and other heraldic and armorial insignia, and is of very ancient origin...
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 Wallas Schwenckner Bootszubehör - Der Wassersport-bootszubehör-discount-shop. Wallas 2400. Wallas Zube   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Wallas produserer kvalitetsprodukter utviklet for Skandinavias krevende farvann og er overlegent.
Torrance (1988) asserts that Wallas' model is the basis for most of the creative thinking training programs the first and last phases of Wallas' model.
The Walla Wallas and their chief Yelleppit encountered Lewis and Clark for the first time in early October of 1805.
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 Human Nature in Politics, by Graham Wallas.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Human Nature In Politics, by Graham Wallas This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Wallas, you put the medals on me.' All that day political principles and arguments had refused to become real to my constituents, but the emotion excited by the bodily fact that I had at a school ceremony pinned a medal for good attendance on a boy's coat, had all the pungency of a first-hand experience.
Throughout the contest the candidate is made aware, at every point, of the enormously greater solidity for most men of the work-a-day world which they see for themselves, as compared with the world of inference and secondary ideas which they see through the newspapers.
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 Fabian Society
Some of this was used to pay Fabian members such as Harry Snell, Ramsay MacDonald, Graham Wallas, Catherine Glasier and Bruce Glasier to travel around the country giving lecturers on subjects such as 'Socialism', 'Trade Unionism', 'Co-operation' and 'Economic History'.
As Sidney Webb pointed out, the intention of the institution was to "teach political economy on more modern and more socialist lines than those on which it had been taught hitherto, and to serve at the same time as a school of higher commercial education".
The Webbs first approached Graham Wallas, now one of the most prominent members of the Fabians, to become the Director of the LSE.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Pfabian.htm   (2476 words)

  
 The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Wallas, Graham (1858-1932)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Wallas, Graham (1858-1932)@ HighBeam Research
Wallas was an early member of the Fabian Society and contributed to Fabian Essays in Socialism 1888.
He left the society 1904 because it had become antiliberal.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100185251&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (169 words)

  
 The Behavior of Crowds: How Crowds Are Formed
In his well-known work on the psychology of the crowd Le Bon noted the fact that the unconscious plays a large part in determining the behavior of crowds.
But he is not clear in his use of the term "unconscious." In fact, as Graham Wallas justly points out, his terminology is very loose indeed.
When, however, Graham Wallas, in The Great Society, states that Le Bon is not "himself clear whether he means that crowds have no collective consciousness, or that every individual in a crowd is completely unconscious," it seems to me that Wallas is a little unfair.
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 LSE buildings
The Graham Wallas room (also known as room A550) is in the 'Old Building A'.
During the day, we will move to a computer lab (room S175), which is in the St. Clements building, Building 'S', on Clare market, and only a 5 minute walk from the Graham Wallas Room.
Tea breaks and luinch will be served in the Graham Wallas room.
www.greenneteducationaltrust.org.uk /directions.htm   (273 words)

  
 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Wallas, Graham @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Wallas, Graham @ HighBeam Research
WALLAS, GRAHAM [Wallas, Graham], 1858-1932, English political scientist and psychologist.
Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years.
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 AllRefer.com - Graham Wallas (Political Science, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Graham Wallas (Political Science, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Graham Wallas[wol´us] Pronunciation Key, 1858–1932, English political scientist and psychologist.
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 HTML Translation of SGML/EAD Document by Tim Green
Graham Wallas was born in Sunderland in 1858 and educated at Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in Literae Humaniores in 1881.
The papers were originally listed by May Wallas after their deposit at the Library but were rearranged, recatalogued and entered onto the Archives Division database in 2001-2002 in order to make the collection more accessible to researchers.
Material from Sections 2-7, 14-17 and 20 had been box-listed by May Wallas as 'Biographical Material' and arranged in a broadly chronological order, but on recataloguing the collection it was decided the material would be more easily accessible if it was split into sections.
library-2.lse.ac.uk /archives/handlists/Wallas/m.html   (8103 words)

  
 Sullivan Solutions
In 1926, Graham Wallas developed one with four stages.
Note that for Wallas (and almost everybody else), creativity involves not only irrational, mysterious processes such as “illumination” but also rational, analytical processes such as “definition of issue.” Creativity is a complex balancing act which requires creators not only to imagine things, but to evaluate them and then work hard to bring them to reality.
Note also that Wallas considered “laying the issue aside” as an essential part of the creative process.
sullivancreative.com /secrets/july05/july05.htm   (1588 words)

  
 We Were Creative Once, and Young
Once you've done that, check out the following, which comes from basic research into the creative process that was carried out by a fellow named Graham Wallas.
Wallas talked to folks who were well known for their creativity, and made note of what they told him.
He was able to identify four stages in the creative process.
www.mondaymemo.net /011112feature.htm   (1305 words)

  
 AIM25: British Library of Political and Economic Science: WALLAS, Graham, 1858-1932, political psychologist
Administrative/Biographical history: Graham Wallas, 1858-1932, was born in Sunderland and educated at Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in Literae Humaniores in 1881.
After leaving Oxford, he became a schoolmaster, 1881 - 1890, University Extension Lecturer, 1890, Lecturer at the London School of Economics, 1895-1923, London University Professor of Political Science, 1914-1923 and Professor Emeritus, 1923.
Scope and content/abstract: Personal and professional correspondence, articles, manuscripts of books, research material, reviews of books, biographical material, Ada Wallas' diaries, and Graham Wallas' engagement diaries.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/1/5934.htm   (246 words)

  
 L.S.E.
In 1900, it became one of the colleges of the University of London system.
However, the Fabian roots of the school were well-represented in the appointments of more radical scholars such as Graham Wallas, R.H. Tawney, Lord Beveridge, Harold Laski and Hugh Dalton.
Laski was hired at the L.S.E. to succeed Graham Wallas in political science in 1920, he eventually became one of its leading spirits.
cepa.newschool.edu /het/schools/lse.htm   (1016 words)

  
 Graham Wallas
Wallas, Graham, 1858–1932, English political scientist and psychologist.
Wallas wrote a biography of Francis Place (1898),
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 Wallas, Graham: The Life of Francis Place 1771 to 1854   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Wallas, Graham: The Life of Francis Place 1771 to 1854
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A biography of Place, British radical reformer, best-known for his successful campaign for the repeal in 1824 of the antiunion Combination Acts, written by Graham Wallas, British educator, public official, and political scientist known for his contributions to the development of an empirical approach to the study of human behavior.
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 Report Paris meeting, 7-11 September, 1994
Richard Ronald (Nottingham) presented Graham Wallas' attempt to connect the two disciplines of social psychology and political science to the needs of social organisation.
Malcolm Vout (Nottingham) traced the concept of political behavior in Graham Wallas' ideas.
Ian Lubek and his colleagues (Guelph, Canada) gave another chapter of their ongoing presentation of research practices of social psychologists-a social psychological study of social psychology itself.
psychology.dur.ac.uk /eshhs/meeting/94paris.htm   (1340 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: Who Shot Aunt Sally?
"The study of politics is just now in a curiously unsatisfactory position." This sentence by Graham Wallas is evidently a favorite of David Cresap Moore's.
Once he has found a good quotation he repeats it again and again until the reader is ready to scream with tedium.
At any rate we can adapt Graham Wallas's sentence and say that to judge by this book the study of British politics in the mid-nineteenth century is in a very unsatisfactory position indeed.
www.nybooks.com /articles/article-preview?article_id=8538   (380 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Fabian Society (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia
George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb joined soon after this and became its outstanding exponents.
The group achieved recognition with the publication of Fabian Essays (1889), with contributions by Shaw, Webb, Annie Besant, and Graham Wallas.
The Fabians were opposed to the revolutionary theory of Marxism, holding that social reforms and socialistic "permeation" of existing political institutions would bring about the natural development of socialism.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FabianSo.html   (286 words)

  
 WALLAS, Graham, 1858-1932, Professor of Political Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
You are here - Welcome to LSE > Library > Archives > Guide to holdings > Social Reformers/Activists > WALLAS, Graham, 1858-1932, Professor of Political Science
Scope and Content: Papers created by or collected by Graham Wallas, including personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts of his lectures, articles and books, notes, engagement diaries and press cuttings.
Also includes papers collected or created by Ada Wallas and May Wallas, notably Wallas' letters to both Ada and May, Ada's diaries, and correspondence and papers relating to posthumous publications of Wallas' works, edited by May Wallas.
www.lse.ac.uk /library/archive/gutoho/wallas_graham.htm   (227 words)

  
 Between two worlds: the political thought of Graham Wallas. - WIENER, MARTIN J.,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Between two worlds: the political thought of Graham Wallas.
WIENER, MARTIN J., Between two worlds: the political thought of Graham Wallas.
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