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The study of sociology. By Herbert Spencer. Paperback – December 20, 2005
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Print length448 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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Publication dateDecember 20, 2005
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Dimensions5.87 x 1.01 x 8 inches
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ISBN-101418188417
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ISBN-13978-1418188412
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- Publisher : Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library (December 20, 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1418188417
- ISBN-13 : 978-1418188412
- Item Weight : 1.37 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.87 x 1.01 x 8 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2019
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THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY BY Herbert Spencer, is an important book for any research purposes because I believe it would be out of print except for the work of FORGOTTEN BOOKS.
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2018
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Any student of American society should read this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2009
I read Spencer's The Study of Sociology thirty-eight years ago when I was a doctoral student. The things I recall best are Spencer's learned and skillful (even if hopelessly wrong-headed) use of organic analogies; his off-handed but adept use of structural functional analysis, far better than Parsons, whose influence was than very much on the wane; and, most of all, Spencer's extraordinarily elegant but simple writing style.
I remember thinking that Spencer's critics, who were legion and Parsons was conspicuous among them, were much too hard on the guy. Yes, he was a determinedly laissez-faire conservative, anathema in the '60's and '70's; his use of organic analogies was hopelessly quaint and misleading; and the notion that there was a set of "first principles" which governed the organization of everything had rightly come to be judged nonsensical. Still, even when Spencer was patently wrong, he seemed brilliant, someone who deserved better than relegation to the status of a thinker of interest only to antiquarians.
By the way, given the similar titles, it's easy to confuse The Study of Sociology with Spencer's The Principles of Sociology, a much longer book, loaded with ethnographic material. The Study of Sociology is the better book by far.
I remember thinking that Spencer's critics, who were legion and Parsons was conspicuous among them, were much too hard on the guy. Yes, he was a determinedly laissez-faire conservative, anathema in the '60's and '70's; his use of organic analogies was hopelessly quaint and misleading; and the notion that there was a set of "first principles" which governed the organization of everything had rightly come to be judged nonsensical. Still, even when Spencer was patently wrong, he seemed brilliant, someone who deserved better than relegation to the status of a thinker of interest only to antiquarians.
By the way, given the similar titles, it's easy to confuse The Study of Sociology with Spencer's The Principles of Sociology, a much longer book, loaded with ethnographic material. The Study of Sociology is the better book by far.
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interesting book.

