A Short History of Sociological Thought, Third Edition
Edition: 3rd edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 22, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312230920
Subjects: History Of Sociological Thought; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - Social Theory; Social Science / Sociology / General; Sociology - General; History
First sentence: There was no sociology before the advent of the nineteenth century, if by sociology is meant a systematic corpus of knowledge, specific methodology and conceptual framework which clearly differentiate it as a distinctive discipline, with its own object of study, from the related studies of economics, history, philosophy and law.