Sociology

About this Collection

How do human societies constitute themselves? How do they interact with one another? How do they preserve and change themselves? The study of sociology is the exploration of these questions.

See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the Sociology section of the Ideas page.

Members:

• Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative, vol. 3 (Herbert Spencer)
• First Principles (1867) (Herbert Spencer)
• The Forgotten Man and Other Essays (corrected edition) (William Graham Sumner)
• In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government (Charles Murray)
• Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, 2 vols. (1839) (Gustave de Beaumont)
• Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, vol. 1 (1839) (Gustave de Beaumont)
• Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, vol. 2 (1839) (Gustave de Beaumont)
• L’Irlande sociale, politique, réligieuse, 2 vols (Gustave de Beaumont)
• L’Irlande sociale, politique, réligieuse, vol. 1 (Gustave de Beaumont)
• L’Irlande sociale, politique, réligieuse, vol. 2 (Gustave de Beaumont)
• Justice: Being Part IV of the Principles of Ethics (1891) (Herbert Spencer)
• David M. Hart, “Classical Liberalism and the Problem of Class” (Nov. 2016) (David M. Hart)
• Liberty Matters: Herbert Spencer’s Sociology of the State (Nov. 2014) (George H. Smith)
• The Man versus the State (1885 ed.) (Herbert Spencer)
• Methods of Social Reform and Other Papers (William Stanley Jevons)
• The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks (John Millar)
• The Origins of Contemporary France: The Modern Regime, vol. I (Hippolyte Taine)
• Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet)
• Political Institutions, being Part V of the Principles of Sociology (Herbert Spencer)
• The Present Age (Robert A. Nisbet)
• The Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. (1898) (Herbert Spencer)
• The Principles of Sociology, vol. 1 (1898) (Herbert Spencer)
• The Principles of Sociology, vol. 2 (1898) (Herbert Spencer)
• The Principles of Sociology, vol. 3 (1898) (Herbert Spencer)
• Retrospect of Western Travel, 3 vols. (Harriet Martineau)