The History of Sociology in Britain: New Research and Revaluation

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
 Introduction  (Plamena Panayotova)....Pages 1-33
Front Matter ....Pages 35-35
 Did British Sociology Begin with the Scottish Enlightenment?  (Kenneth Macdonald)....Pages 37-69
 Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Social Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain  (Lawrence Goldman)....Pages 71-100
Front Matter ....Pages 101-101
 Making Sense of Christopher Dawson  (Garrett Potts, Stephen Turner)....Pages 103-136
 Richard Titmuss, Eugenics, and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century Britain  (Chris Renwick)....Pages 137-160
 Social Status, Social Position and Social Class in Post-War British Society  (Colin Mills)....Pages 161-190
 ‘Poor Cousins’: The Lost History of Sociology in the Polytechnics  (Geoff Payne)....Pages 191-220
 Anglo-America: The Case of Edward Shils, Sociologist, 1910–1995  (Martin Bulmer)....Pages 221-246
Front Matter ....Pages 247-247
 No Longer Oblivion: Sociology Courses Before the ‘First’ Sociology Course  (Christopher T. Husbands)....Pages 249-280
 The Rise of the Social Sciences in British Education, 1960–2016  (Peter Mandler)....Pages 281-299
 The Teaching of Research Methods in British Sociology in the Twentieth Century  (Plamena Panayotova)....Pages 301-335
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 Sociology and Statistics in Britain: The Strange History of Social Mobility Research and Its Latter-Day Consequences  (John H. Goldthorpe)....Pages 339-387
 What Kind of ‘Ology’? Two Cultures and the Success of British Sociology  (John MacInnes)....Pages 389-414
Back Matter ....Pages 415-423