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
G. Duncan Mitchell received his degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has taught at the Universities of Liverpool, Birmingham, and Oxford as well as at several universities in the United States and Canada. He was professor of sociology at the University of Exeter and the author of several books including Sociology: The Study of Social Systems, co-author of Neighborhood and Community and editor of A Dictionary of Sociology.
-[This book] provides insights valuable for the sociology of
sociology.- --Bridget Pym, The British Journal of Sociology -[T]he
present volume may serve as a quick refresher for those who know
something about the history of sociology.- --Werner J. Cahnman,
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years of sociology, provokes a concern about the meaning and
commitments flowing from sociological inquiry.... [A] short
synopsis of some important trends in sociology.- --Kiyoshi Ikeda,
Social Forces
"[This book] provides insights valuable for the sociology of
sociology." --Bridget Pym, The British Journal of Sociology "[T]he
present volume may serve as a quick refresher for those who know
something about the history of sociology." --Werner J. Cahnman,
American Sociological Review "This book, about the last hundred
years of sociology, provokes a concern about the meaning and
commitments flowing from sociological inquiry.... [A] short
synopsis of some important trends in sociology." --Kiyoshi Ikeda,
Social Forces
"[This book] provides insights valuable for the sociology of
sociology." --Bridget Pym, The British Journal of Sociology "[T]he
present volume may serve as a quick refresher for those who know
something about the history of sociology." --Werner J. Cahnman,
American Sociological Review "This book, about the last hundred
years of sociology, provokes a concern about the meaning and
commitments flowing from sociological inquiry.... [A] short
synopsis of some important trends in sociology." --Kiyoshi Ikeda,
Social Forces
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