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Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; Disputed Origins; Neglected Legacies; Teaching Sociology; Historical Peculiarities; References; Part I: Disputed Origins; 2: Did British Sociology Begin with the Scottish Enlightenment?; Tools Available; Adventitious Sociology; Four Apparently Attractive Narratives; Smith Is an Egalitarian Sociologist, Concerned with the Poor?; Ferguson's Division of Labour Was Sociologically Important?; They Could Have Derived Much from the Work of the Political Arithmeticians?
Conjectural History: The Origin of Sociology?Conclusion; References; 3: Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Social Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain; References; Part II: Neglected Legacies; 4: Making Sense of Christopher Dawson; Dawson as a Sociologist: The Externals and the Motivation; Dawson's Core Intellectual Project; The Civilisations of the World Religions; Weber, Troeltsch, and the Problem of Progress; Dawson as a Theorist; Dawson in the 1930s; The Moot; Dawson's Later Career; References; 5: Richard Titmuss, Eugenics, and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century Britain
Eugenics and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century BritainEugenics, Social Science, and the Environment; Eugenics, Social Science, and Morals; Conclusion; References; 6: Social Status, Social Position and Social Class in Post-War British Society; The Relics and the Problem; The Past Is Another Country; Dramatis Personae; The Boys from Bolton; The Boy from Mile End; Why No Class in Social Mobility in Britain?; They Do Things Differently; The Gentleman Scholar; A Tale of Two Eugenicists; The Meeting of Theory and Data; Why Status and Not Class?; References
7: 'Poor Cousins': The Lost History of Sociology in the PolytechnicsConstructing the Discourse and Re-constructing History; Why Should We Concern Ourselves with the Polytechnics?; Polytechnics in British Higher Education; What Was Sociology Doing in the Colleges and Polytechnics?; A Guide to Sociology in the University of London Sociology Degree; Contestation for Control: The Curriculum and Assessment; CNAA: A New National System; Coming of Age; References; 8: Anglo-America: The Case of Edward Shils, Sociologist, 1910-1995; Family and Career; Primordial, Personal, Sacred and Civil Ties
His Perspective upon SociologyTradition; The Primary Group; Toward a General Theory of Action; Centre and Periphery; The Illumination of Opinion; Criticisms of Shils; His Institutional Contribution; Conclusion; References; Part III: Teaching Sociology; 9: No Longer Oblivion: Sociology Courses Before the 'First' Sociology Course; Identifying Pre-1905 Course-Based 'Sociology'; Philip Wicksteed's Course at Manchester New College, 1888-1889; Alfred Cort Haddon's Lectures at Cambridge University, 1896; Robert Mackintosh's Courses at Lancashire Independent College, 1896 to 1898
Conjectural History: The Origin of Sociology?Conclusion; References; 3: Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Social Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain; References; Part II: Neglected Legacies; 4: Making Sense of Christopher Dawson; Dawson as a Sociologist: The Externals and the Motivation; Dawson's Core Intellectual Project; The Civilisations of the World Religions; Weber, Troeltsch, and the Problem of Progress; Dawson as a Theorist; Dawson in the 1930s; The Moot; Dawson's Later Career; References; 5: Richard Titmuss, Eugenics, and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century Britain
Eugenics and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century BritainEugenics, Social Science, and the Environment; Eugenics, Social Science, and Morals; Conclusion; References; 6: Social Status, Social Position and Social Class in Post-War British Society; The Relics and the Problem; The Past Is Another Country; Dramatis Personae; The Boys from Bolton; The Boy from Mile End; Why No Class in Social Mobility in Britain?; They Do Things Differently; The Gentleman Scholar; A Tale of Two Eugenicists; The Meeting of Theory and Data; Why Status and Not Class?; References
7: 'Poor Cousins': The Lost History of Sociology in the PolytechnicsConstructing the Discourse and Re-constructing History; Why Should We Concern Ourselves with the Polytechnics?; Polytechnics in British Higher Education; What Was Sociology Doing in the Colleges and Polytechnics?; A Guide to Sociology in the University of London Sociology Degree; Contestation for Control: The Curriculum and Assessment; CNAA: A New National System; Coming of Age; References; 8: Anglo-America: The Case of Edward Shils, Sociologist, 1910-1995; Family and Career; Primordial, Personal, Sacred and Civil Ties
His Perspective upon SociologyTradition; The Primary Group; Toward a General Theory of Action; Centre and Periphery; The Illumination of Opinion; Criticisms of Shils; His Institutional Contribution; Conclusion; References; Part III: Teaching Sociology; 9: No Longer Oblivion: Sociology Courses Before the 'First' Sociology Course; Identifying Pre-1905 Course-Based 'Sociology'; Philip Wicksteed's Course at Manchester New College, 1888-1889; Alfred Cort Haddon's Lectures at Cambridge University, 1896; Robert Mackintosh's Courses at Lancashire Independent College, 1896 to 1898