Herbert Spencer's Sociology

by Jay Rumney

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351515917
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	924 KB

About the Author

Jay Rumney

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.