The Principles of Sociology, vol. 3 (1898)

This is vol. 3 of the third revised edition of Herbert Spencer’s magnum opus on sociology which was first published in 1876. In vol. 1 he defines what his theory of sociology is, how human beings associate with each other in communities, how institution evolve over time, and begins his analysis of institutions with a section on the family, marriage, women and children. In vol. 2 he covers “ceremonial” institutions and political institutions (with his famous distinction between militant and industrial types of society). In vol. 3 he discusses ecclesiastical institutions, professional institutions, and “industrial” (or economic) institutions.
The Principles of Sociology, in Three Volumes (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898). Vol. 3.
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- Author: Herbert Spencer
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Table of Contents
- PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO PART VI.
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- CONTENTS OF VOL. III.
- The Principles of Sociology, Vol. III
- PART VI.: ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTIONS.
- CHAPTER I.: THE RELIGIOUS IDEA.
- CHAPTER II.: MEDICINE-MEN AND PRIESTS.
- CHAPTER III.: PRIESTLY DUTIES OF DESCENDANTS.
- CHAPTER IV.: ELDEST MALE DESCENDANTS AS QUASI-PRIESTS.
- CHAPTER V.: THE RULER AS PRIEST.
- CHAPTER VI.: THE RISE OF A PRIESTHOOD.
- CHAPTER VII.: POLYTHEISTIC AND MONOTHEISTIC PRIESTHOODS.
- CHAPTER VIII.: ECCLESIASTICAL HIERARCHIES.
- CHAPTER IX.: AN ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM AS A SOCIAL BOND.
- CHAPTER X.: THE MILITARY FUNCTIONS OF PRIESTS.
- CHAPTER XI.: THE CIVIL FUNCTIONS OF PRIESTS.
- CHAPTER XII.: CHURCH AND STATE.
- CHAPTER XIII.: NONCONFORMITY.
- CHAPTER XIV.: THE MORAL INFLUENCES OF PRIESTHOODS.
- CHAPTER XV.: ECCLESIASTICAL RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT.
- CHAPTER XVI.*: RELIGIOUS RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT.
- PART VII.: PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
- CHAPTER I.: PROFESSIONS IN GENERAL.
- CHAPTER II.: PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
- CHAPTER IV.: ORATOR AND POET, ACTOR AND DRAMATIST.
- CHAPTER V.: BIOGRAPHER, HISTORIAN, AND MAN OF LETTERS.
- CHAPTER VI.: MAN OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHER.
- CHAPTER VII.: JUDGE AND LAWYER.
- CHAPTER VIII.: TEACHER.
- CHAPTER IX.: ARCHITECT.
- CHAPTER X.: SCULPTOR.
- CHAPTER XI.: PAINTER.
- CHAPTER XII.: EVOLUTION OF THE PROFESSIONS.
- PART VIII.: INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTIONS.
- CHAPTER I.: INTRODUCTORY.
- CHAPTER II.: SPECIALIZATION OF FUNCTIONS AND DIVISION OF LABOUR.
- CHAPTER III.: ACQUISITION AND PRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER IV.: AUXILIARY PRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER V.: DISTRIBUTION.
- CHAPTER VI.: AUXILIARY DISTRIBUTION.
- CHAPTER VII.: EXCHANGE.
- CHAPTER VIII.: AUXILIARY EXCHANGE.
- CHAPTER IX.: INTER-DEPENDENCE AND INTEGRATION.
- CHAPTER X.: THE REGULATION OF LABOUR.
- CHAPTER XI.: PATERNAL REGULATION.
- CHAPTER XII.: PATRIARCHAL REGULATION.
- CHAPTER XIII.: COMMUNAL REGULATION.
- CHAPTER XIV.: GILD REGULATION.
- CHAPTER XV.: SLAVERY.
- CHAPTER XVI.: SERFDOM.
- CHAPTER XVII.: FREE LABOUR AND CONTRACT.
- CHAPTER XVIII.: COMPOUND FREE LABOUR.
- CHAPTER XIX.: COMPOUND CAPITAL.
- CHAPTER XX.: TRADE-UNIONISM.
- CHAPTER XXI.: COOPERATION.
- CHAPTER XXII.: SOCIALISM.
- CHAPTER XXIII.: THE NEAR FUTURE.
- CHAPTER XXIV.: CONCLUSION.
- REFERENCES.
- TITLES OF WORKS REFERRED TO.