Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology's positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-centur
Auguste Comte proclaimed himself the founder of sociology and, on the whole, this claim is accepted. His most important work is the six-volume Cours de Philosop
In their efforts to emulate the methodology which had proved so successful in the natural sciences, the social sciences – including sociology – have not yet
These essays, commissioned by John Rex, reflect the state of sociology in Britain today. Leading representatives of the diverse ‘schools’ provide lucid acco
A social science which has become so remote from the society which pays for its upkeep is ultimately doomed, threatened less by repression than by intellectual