Evolution of society / edited by Robert .L. Carneiro

By:

"Spencer's, Herbert"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; University of Chicago; 1967Description: 241pSubject(s):

Sociology

DDC classification:

301 Spe

Summary: This book includes two important sections from Spencer's masterpiece, Principles of Sociology--one dealing with the structure and function of society, and the other with the evolution of the regulative institutions of society. The editor has provided an illuminating introduction in which he describes Spencer's early scientific interests, his ethnological studies, his relations with his contemporaries, a~d his literary output. "Spencer deliberately set out to survey all orders of phenomena," writes Carneiro, "and to show that they were the determinate results of the operation of a universal process. To this endeavor he brought an extraordinary command of scientific fact and unrivaled powers of synthesis and generalization."

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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This book includes two important sections from Spencer's masterpiece, Principles of Sociology--one dealing with the structure and function of society, and the other with the evolution of the regulative institutions of society. The editor has provided an illuminating introduction in which he describes Spencer's early scientific interests, his ethnological studies, his relations with
his contemporaries, a~d his literary output. "Spencer deliberately set out to survey all orders of phenomena,"
writes Carneiro, "and to show that they were the determinate results of the operation of a universal process. To this endeavor he brought an extraordinary command of scientific fact and unrivaled powers of synthesis and generalization."

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