Herbert Spencer's sociology

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Herbert Spencer's sociology

Jay Rumney

AldineTransaction, 2007, c1965

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Herbert Spencer's sociology : a study in the history of social theory, to which is appended a bibliography of Spencer and his work

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-351) and index

Originally published: London : Pub. for Herbert Specer's trustees by Williams and Norgate, 1934

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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 generation the man whose name had been synonymous with sociology was, or so it seemed, repressed and forgotten.

Table of Contents

  • 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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