376 Pages
by
Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
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The republication of this book is eminently fitting at this time. Jay Rumney's Herbert Spencer's Sociology first appeared in 1937. In that year Talcott Parsons, citing Crane Brinton, declared: "Spencer is dead. But who killed him and how?" It was the thesis of Parsons' famous The Structure of Social Action that the evolution of scientific theory had put an end to Spencer. For more than a... Read more
I: THE SCOPE OF SOCIOLOGY.; II: BIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, HISTORY.; III: TYPES OF SOCIETY.; IV: WOMAN, FAMILY, RACE.; V: SOCIETY, STATE, GOVERNMENT.; VI: PROPERTY AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS.; VII: GHOSTS, ANCESTORS, GODS.; VIII: FACTORS OF SOCIAL CHANGE.; IX: SOCIAL EVOLUTION.; X: SOCIAL PROGRESS.; XI: CONCLUSION.
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Jay Rumney
