498 Pages
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Routledge
498 Pages
by
Routledge
498 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1924, Development of Social Theory was written to expand on an outline of the subject in order to turn it into a year’s course of graduate study. From Plato to the writers and teachers of the time, it presents the theorists themselves, giving a historic background, followed by their theory and its subsequent development. It was highly regarded, and widely used as a text... Read more
Preface 1. Plato 2. Aristotle 3. Late Greek and Early Roman Writers 4. Christianity 5. Scholastic Social Philosophy – St Thomas and Dante 6. Niccolo Machiavelli 7. The Reformation and Bodin 8. The Social Contract Theorists 9. Montesquieu 10. August Comte 11. Darwin and Evolution 12. Herbert Spencer 13. Lester F. Ward 14. Gabriel Tarde 15. Gumplowicz and Ratzenhofer. Index.
Biography
James Pendleton Lichtenberger (1870–1953), Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania, was an American sociologist. Academic and pastor. In 1922 he was president of the American Sociological Society.
