A History of Social Thought

Contents: 1. What Is Social Thought? 2. Primitive Social Thought. 3. The Ancient near East. 4. The Old Testament. 5. The Far East. 6. Greece and Rome. 7. The New Testament. 8. From The Fathers To The Medieval Synthesis. 9. The Rise of Bourgeois Naturalism, 1274-1543. 10. The Rise of Scientific Naturalism, 1543-1700. 11. The Age Of Reason, 1700-1769. 12. The Revolutionary Epoch, 1769-1815. 13. Democracy, Nationalism, Industrialism, 1815-1870. 14. The Era or Progress 1870-1914. 15. United States to 1914. 16. The Rise of Academic Sociology. 17. The Great Disillusionment, 1914-1939. Bibliographical Essay. Index.

This book dwells on the development of social thought form medieval period to the present period. The book mainly stresses on the development of human dignity to an individual. The industrial revolution had triggered a revolutionary change in the discipline of social thought. (Jacket)