1st Edition
Vilfredo Pareto’s Sociology A Framework for Political Psychology
By Alasdair J. Marshall
Copyright 2007
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Vilfredo Pareto is a key figure in the history of economics and sociology. His sociological works attempted to merge these two disciplines through a psychologistic analysis of society, economy and politics. This is the first book to rethink Pareto's contribution to classical sociology by focusing upon its psychological underpinning. The author locates the origins of Pareto's psychologistic... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Pareto's 'psychologistic' sociology; Social personality; Pareto's psychology; Testing Pareto's theory; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Alasdair J. Marshall is a Researcher in the Cullen Centre for Risk and Governance at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.
'This study sets out to rescue Pareto from confinement to this ideological time warp and put him alongside Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, and other classical contributiors to the theoretical and empirical study of society.' Review of Politics
