Social Science Classics
Social and Cultural Dynamics: A Study of Change in Major Systems of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law and Social Relationships
1st Edition
By Pitirim Sorokin
January 30, 1985
This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology. Its original publication occurred before World War II. This revised version, written ...
The Hidden Society
1st Edition
By Wilhelm Aubert
January 30, 1982
Societies consider certain institutions and activities as central, proper, and visible, while others are defined as peripheral, deviant, and private. Vilhelm Aubert takes us to the "hidden" societies: the privacy of love, the secrecy of the underground, the remoteness of a ship, the isolation of ...
Society in America
1st Edition
Edited
By Harriet Martineau
December 31, 1981
Harriet Martineau brought to her observations the convictions of a vehement English liberal and an astonishingly modern sociological approach. In 1834 she wrote the first draft of How to Observe Manners and Morals--perhaps the earliest book on the methodology of social research. In abridging the ...
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties: Volume 1
1st Edition
By M Ostrogorski, Seymour Martin Lipset
January 30, 1981
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume study of the party system in Britain and the ...
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties: Volume 2
1st Edition
By Moisei Ostrogorski
January 30, 1981
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume study of the party system in Britain and the ...
Lectures on the Relation Between Law and Public Opinion in England During the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Albert Venn Dicey
January 30, 1981
The famed 1914 edition of this classic is one of the small handful of works that deserve to be read by Americans to understand the 1980s. Indeed, the final three chapters, describing the decline of will and consensus in late Victorian England, stand as a stark, unmistakable reminder that such ...