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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Herbert Spencer; J D Y Peel |
| ISBN: | 0226768910 9780226768915 0226768929 9780226768922 |
| OCLC Number: | 483486 |
| Description: | li, 270 p. 21 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The social statics: The search for an ethical code ; The evanescence of evil ; The first principle of ethics ; Social statics and social dynamics -- 2. From progress to evolution: Population and progress ; Progress : its law and cause ; The social organism ; Evolution defined -- 3. A methodology for social science: The need for sociology ; Sociology against history ; Methodological individualism ; Difficulties of the social science -- 4. Evolution in general: The factors of social evolution ; The organic analogy reconsidered ; Societal typologies ; Militancy and industrialism ; Struggle in evolution -- 5. The analysis of institutions: Ceremonial institutions ; Political institutions ; The truth of religion ; An ecclesiastical system as a social bond ; Joint-stock companies -- Labour in industral society -- 6. The end of the century: Advice to the modernizers of Japan ; retrospect and prospect. |
| Series Title: | The Heritage of sociology |
| Other Titles: | Selections. |
| Responsibility: | Edited and with an introd. by J.D.Y. Peel. |
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