The History of Sociology in Britain: New Research and Revaluation
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Disputed Origins -- Neglected Legacies -- Teaching Sociology -- Historical Peculiarities -- References -- Part I: Disputed Origins -- 2: Did British Sociology Begin with the Scottish Enlightenment? -- Tools Available -- Adventitious Sociology -- Four Apparently Attractive Narratives -- Smith Is an Egalitarian Sociologist, Concerned with the Poor? -- Ferguson's Division of Labour Was Sociologically Important? -- They Could Have Derived Much from the Work of the Political Arithmeticians? -- Conjectural History: The Origin of Sociology? -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Social Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- References -- Part II: Neglected Legacies -- 4: Making Sense of Christopher Dawson -- Dawson as a Sociologist: The Externals and the Motivation -- Dawson's Core Intellectual Project -- The Civilisations of the World Religions -- Weber, Troeltsch, and the Problem of Progress -- Dawson as a Theorist -- Dawson in the 1930s -- The Moot -- Dawson's Later Career -- References -- 5: Richard Titmuss, Eugenics, and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century Britain -- Eugenics and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century Britain -- Eugenics, Social Science, and the Environment -- Eugenics, Social Science, and Morals -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Social Status, Social Position and Social Class in Post-War British Society -- The Relics and the Problem -- The Past Is Another Country -- Dramatis Personae -- The Boys from Bolton -- The Boy from Mile End -- Why No Class in Social Mobility in Britain? -- They Do Things Differently -- The Gentleman Scholar -- A Tale of Two Eugenicists -- The Meeting of Theory and Data -- Why Status and Not Class? -- References.
