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:

• Retrospect of Western Travel, vol. 1 (Harriet Martineau)
• Retrospect of Western Travel, vol. 2 (Harriet Martineau)
• Retrospect of Western Travel, vol. 3 (Harriet Martineau)
• The Ruins: or a Survery of the Revolutions of Empires (Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, Marquis de Volney)
• Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (Ludwig von Mises)
• The State (Franz Oppenheimer)
• The Study of Sociology (1873) (Herbert Spencer)
• The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (Thorstein Veblen)
• War and Other Essays (Albert Galloway Keller)
• What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (William Graham Sumner)