British Sociology's Lost Biological Roots

A History of Futures Past

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9781349347377
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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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ISBN13:9781349347377
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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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

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