British sociology's lost biological roots: a history of futures past

A new and innovative account of British sociology's intellectual origins thatuses previously unknown archival resources to show how the field's forgotten roots in a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century debate about biology can help us understand both its subsequent development and future potential. CHRIS RENWICK Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York, UK. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Preface - Foreword; 'S.Fuller - 'Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART I - Political Economy, the BAAS and Sociology - PARTII - Francis Galton and the Science of Eugenics - Patrick Geddes' Biosocial Science of Civics - L. T. Hobhouse's Evolutionary Philosophy of Reform - PART III - The Origins and Growth of the Sociological Society - The End of Biological Sociology in Britain - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-35616-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés