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A new and innovative account of British sociology's intellectual origins that uses previously unknown archival resources to show how the field's forgotten roots in a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century debate about biology can help us understand both its subsequent development and...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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A new and innovative account of British sociology's intellectual origins that uses previously unknown archival resources to show how the field's forgotten roots in a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century debate about biology can help us understand both its subsequent development and future potential. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230356160. |
| Carrier Form: | 264 p. : 9 figures. |
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9780230356160 9780230367104 : 0230367100 : |
| CLC: | C91 |
| Contents: | List of Illustrations Preface Foreword-- S.Fuller Acknowledgements Introduction PART I Political Economy, the BAAS and Sociology PARTII Francis Galton and the Science of Eugenics Patrick Geddes' Biosocial Science of Civics L. T. Hobhouse's Evolutionary Philosophy of Reform PART III The Origins and Growth of the Sociological Society The End of Biological Sociology in Britain Conclusion Notes Bibliography. |