A hundred years of sociology
Tracing the development of scientific sociology from Comte to the present, "A Hundred Years of Sociology" is a concise, narrative history of the major figures, 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-finding 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 influence of World War II on current work in the field. Sociology is still both philosophical and practical, both concerned with society in general and with particular parts or aspects of human social life, yet an effective way of thinking about human social life has been built: a formulation of the principal questions, which define the discipline, and a drawing together, in an increasingly imposing organization, of the many diverse strands of knowledge about society
Print Book, English, ©2007
AldineTransaction, New Brunswick, N.J., ©2007
History
xiii, 310 pages ; 23 cm
9780202361680, 0202361683
145146341
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
Originally published: Chicago : Aldine Pub. Co., 1968