ABSTRACT
This volume provides a fascinating perspective on the social sciences through its examination of the leading proponents, their ideas and careers. It includes useful suggestions for further reading. All the great names in the history of the subject are here – Freud, Marx, Weber, Adam Smith and so on – along with many less prominent but nevertheless important thinkers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Adler, Alfred (1870–1937)
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Althusser, Louis (1918 –)
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Arendt, Hannah (1906–75)
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Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
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Aron, Raymond (1905–83)
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Arrow, Kenneth (1921–)
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Barthes, Roland, (1915–80)
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Bateson, Gregory (1904–80)
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Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832)
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Blau, Peter M. (1918–)
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Bloch, Marc (1886–1944)
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Boas, Franz (1858–1942)
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Bowlby, John E. (1907–)
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Braudel, Fernand (1902–1985)
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Bruner, Jerome Seymour (1915–)
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Burke, Edmund (1729–97)
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Chomsky, Noam (1928–)
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Comte, Auguste (1798–1857)
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Cournot, Antoine Augustin (1801–77)
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Dewey, John (1859–1952)
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Durkheim, Émile (1858–1917)
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Elias, Norbert (1897–)
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Engels, Friedrich (1820–95)
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Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan (1902–73)
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Eysenck, Hans J. (1916–)
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Feyerabend, Paul K. (1924–)
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Foucault, Michel (1926–84)
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Frazer, James George (1854–1941)
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Freud, Anna (1895–1982)
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Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)
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Friedman, Milton (1912–)
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Goffman, Erving (1922–82)
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Gouldner, Alvin Ward (1920–80)
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Gramsci, Antonio (1891–1937)
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Habermas, Jürgen (1929–)
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Hayek, Friedrich A. (1899–)
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm F. (1770–1831)
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Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679)
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Hull, Clark L. (1884–1952)
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Hume, David (1711–76)
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Illich, Ivan (1926–)
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Jakobson, Roman Osipovič (1896–1982)
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James, William (1842–1910)
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Jung, Carl Gustav (1875–1961)
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Keynes, John Maynard (1883–1946)
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Klein, Melanie (1882–1960)
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Kropotkin, Peter (1842–1921)
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Kuhn, Thomas Samuel (1922–)
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Lacan, Jacques (1901–83)
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Laing, Ronald David (1927–)
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Leontief, Wassily (1906–)
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Le Play, Frédéric (1806–82)
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Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1908–)
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Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien (1857–1939)
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Locke, John (1632–1704)
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Lukács, George Szegedy von (1885–1971)
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Luria, Alexander Romanovich (1902–1977)
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Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469–1526)
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Malinowski, Bronislaw Kaspar (1884–1942)
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Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766–1834)
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Mannheim, Karl (1893–1947)
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Marcuse, Herbert (1898–1979)
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Marshall, Alfred (1842–1924)
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Marx, Karl Heinrich (1818–83)
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Mauss, Marcel (1872–1950)
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McLuhan, Marshall (1910–80)
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Mead, George Herbert (1863–1931)
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Mead, Margaret (1901–78)
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Merton, Robert King (1910–)
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Michels, Robert (1876–1936)
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Mill, John Stuart (1806–73)
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Montaigne, Michel de (1533–92)
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Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat (1689–1755)
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Morgan, Lewis Henry (1818–81)
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Mosca, Gaetano (1858–1941)
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Myrdal, Gunnar (1898–)
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Pareto, Vilfredo (1848–1923)
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Park, Robert Ezra (1864–1944)
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Parsons, Talcott (1902–79)
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Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849–1936)
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Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839–1914)
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Piaget, Jean (1896–1980)
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Plato (428/7–348/7 B.C.)
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Popper, Karl Raimund (1902–)
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Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald (1881–1955)
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Ricardo, David (1772–1823)
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Rogers, Carl R. (1902–1987)
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Rostow, Walt Whitman (1916–)
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–78)
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Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri De (1760–1825)
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Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–80)
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Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857–1913)
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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois (1883–1950)
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Simmel, Georg (1858–1918)
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Simon, Herbert A. (1916–)
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Skinner, Burrhus F. (1904–)
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Smith, Adam (1723–90)
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Sombart, Werner (1863–1941)
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Sorel, Georges Eugène (1847–1922)
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Sorokin, Pitirim A. (1889–1968)
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Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903)
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Sullivan, Harry Stack (1892–1949)
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Tawney, Richard Henry (1880–1962)
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Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805–59)
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Tönnies, Ferdinand (1855–1936)
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Tylor, Edward Burnett (1832–1917)
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Van Gennep, Arnold (1873–1957)
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Veblen, Thorstein Bunde (1857–1929)
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Watson, John Broadus (1878–1958)
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Weber, Max (1864–1920)
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (1889–1951)
