Making extensive use of biographical method, Maslow pointed to the example of the life history of a number of great men, that their achievement is essentially the result of the implementation of their inherent need for self actualization. Maslow believed that all people should aspire to the disclosure set forth in these high humanoid abilities. However, he stressed that if, by virtue of individual or situational life causes a person loses the possibility of self actualization, then there is a conflict, generating frustration and neurosis,
One of the interesting propositions in the theory of Maslow was his assertion that people with a highly self actualization need, is characterized by a creative focus and concentration on its public interest objectives. The presence of these moments can be taken as criteria for recognition of self actualizing personalities.
Understanding self actualization as one of the triggers of social development and progress, Maslow emphasized the importance of it for the health of society and its movement in the humanist direction. At the same time. Maslow noted that society has a significant arsenal of anti-self actualized individuals. One of the most powerful obstacles to the development and operation of self actualizing personalities Maslow believed social control over ideas, thoughts, information, and the aspirations of the people.
Stressing the senseless destructiveness restrictions on freedom of people, Maslow noted that for the normal development of man he must have internal and external freedom, restrictions which are dangerous to mental health.
By insisting on the absolute necessity of respect for all human rights and freedoms for the normal development of individuals and society, Maslow called attention to the need for self discovery and self-development of inner freedom as the natural prerequisites for realization of self actualization of the individual.
In general Sociology Maslow, despite the presence in it of a number of theoretical and methodological errors, had a major impact on the development of this intellectual tradition and increases its humanistic potential.
Significant impetus to the development of sociology gave one of the leading contemporary American personology, founder of non-directional or "client-centered" therapy, Ph.D., professor of University of Wisconsin, Carl Rogers (b. 1902). |