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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 philosophical tradition and a reformist, fact-fi nding tradition. Throughout the volume, the author is as much concerned with the content of ideas as with their labels and chronology. The important developments in both American and European sociology are considered in full, and special attention is given to the emergence of social anthropology and social psychology and to the profound infl uence of World War II on current work in the field.
List of contents
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
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G.Duncan Mitchell
Summary
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind the work of contemporary sociologists. It describes the convergence of two major streams of sociological thought: a speculative and philosophical tradition and a reformist, fact-finding tradition.
