SMALL, Albion Woodbury.
General sociology, an exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer. Chicago and London, Chicago University Press and Fisher Unwin, 1905.
8vo, pp. xiii, [1 blank], 739, [1 blank]; a very good copy in original green cloth, large waterstain to rear cover; ownership inscription of Constance P. Wilder, dated February 1907, a few annotations and underlining in her hand in pencil throughout.
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General sociology, an exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer.
First edition. Small was one of the founders of academic sociology in the United States and was the first President of the new American Sociological Association. His study of Spencer and Ratzenhofer is a significant development on stage-based sociological theory, i.e. the development from savagery to civilization, which precedes Parsons in its inclusion of ‘social functions’ into such a historical scheme or ‘social process’.