Sociology and Social Progress

Thomas Nixon Carver, the David A. Wellis Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard University compiled this extraordinary handbook which has remained a classic since its publication. He believed that some of the most significant contributions to our knowledge of society have been made not by writers who profess to be sociologists but by men who have turned their attention to those phases of social life which lie nearest their special field of inquiry. This belief is fully reflected in the contributors he selected for the book.

The volume not only served as an introductory text to the discipline, but contained many innovative papers, which re-defined social research for years to come. Carver brought together the best possible overview of the contributions on sociology at his time. It gives a comprehensive overview of our field but it is also daringly innovative – reminiscent to some of the by now classical chapters, in terms of giving voice to new areas of investigations.

• Authors include leading sociologists as well as representatives of other social sciences
• The definitive resource on the leading areas of sociology and one of its most important interdisciplinary adventures
• A must read for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates doing work in the field
• Contributors include – Auguste Comte; J. H. W. Stuckenberg; L. F. Ward; John Fiske; S. N. Patten; Edward Robinson; H. T. Buckle; O. Peschel; Charles Darwin; Karl Pearson; Adam Smith; Benjamin Kidd; T. B. Macaulay; W. Bagehot; G. Tarde; Herbert Spencer; Henry Drummond; Francis Galton; A. C. Hall; W. Z. Ripley; Max Nordau; Aristotle; Machiavelli; J. S. Mill, etc.