Short History of Sociological Thought
Edition: 3Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780333801994
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Social theory; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Sociology - Social Theory; Sociology
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.