
Excerpt from Social Thought, From Hammurabi to Comte A textbook in social thought should 'be concerned more with stimulating the intellect than with exercising the memory. For that reason, an attempt has been made here not to catalogue many ideas but rather to summarize and explain a few. These are presented with the various shades of meaning they have had as time passed, so that the development of social thought is disclosed and its unity made apparent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This work investigates the historical evolution of social thought by tracing the development of key intellectual concepts from the Code of Hammurabi through the positivism of Auguste Comte. Rollin Chambliss, an academic in the field of sociology, constructs a framework that prioritizes the synthesis of major ideas over an exhaustive cataloging of historical figures. By examining how specific social concepts shifted in meaning across centuries, the author aims to demonstrate the underlying unity and continuity of human social inquiry.
What You Will Find
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Experts and students of sociology often categorize this work as a foundational survey for understanding the intellectual lineage of the discipline. Readers frequently note the accessible prose style, which favors conceptual clarity over the dense jargon found in more contemporary sociological textbooks.
Page Count:
469
Publication Date:
1981-01-01
Publisher:
Harcourt College Pub
ISBN-10:
0030050456
ISBN-13:
9780030050459
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