History of Sociology

Contents: Preface. 1. Sociology of ideas: history and growth. 2. Social class and caste in sociology. 3. Objectives and goals in political theory. 4. Evolution of political theory. 5. Development of sociology and social factors. 6. Social character and behaviour of personality. 7. Ordering of relationships and its movement. 8. Processes in social change and its impact. 9. Processes of social control and external reality. 10. Structural patterns and their differentiation. 11. Progress of historiography: growth and prospects. 12. Sociology and ideology of William Graham Sumner. 13. Growth and development of human geography. Bibliography. Index.

"The history of sociology offered in the following pages is intended to be comprehensive but not exhaustive. It is inevitable that, in the preparation of such an account, considerable reliance will be placed upon secondary sources; although sociology is, relatively, a "new science," it is old enough to have a literature too extensive for any one person to have first-hand acquaintance with all of it. The secondary sources are much more adequate for the development of general social thought down to the latter part of the nineteenth century than for the recent period." (jacket)