1st Edition

A Hundred Years of Sociology

By G.Duncan Mitchell Copyright 2007
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

Tracing the development of scientifi c sociology from Comte to the present, A Hundred Years of Sociology is a concise, narrative history of the major fi gures, ideas, and schools that lie behind the work of contemporary sociologists. Covering both theoretical and empirical contributions, the book describes the convergence of two major streams of sociological thought: a speculative and... Read more
I: Introduction; II: Early Social Science in America, Britain and France; III: Evolutionary Sociology; IV: The Analytical and Comparative Study of Social Institutions; V: The Later Evolutionary Tradition of Sociology; VI: The Development of Sociological Theory; VII: The Development of Sociological Theory; VIII: Analytical and Formal Sociology; IX: Pareto's Systematic Sociology; X: The Social Survey Tradition; XI: Advances in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Their Bearing on General Sociology; XII: Descriptive Sociology in America; XIII: The Origins of Social Psychology; XIV: Sociology in War-Time; XV: The Organisation and Professionalisation of Sociology; XVI: Macrosociology; XVII: Microsociology; XVIII: Current Trends

Biography

G.Duncan Mitchell