A New Science

The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology

By: Bruce Mazlish

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Hardcover | 12 October 1989

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In this book Mazlish examines the historical origins of sociology, looking closely at how what he terms the "cash nexus"--the omnipresent substitution of money for personal relations--was perceived as changing the nature of human relations in the 19th century and led to the development of sociology as a means of dealing with this condition. Mazlish also considers the breakdown of connections in modern society: how the orderly 18th century world in which God, humanity, and nature were closely connected to one another came to be replaced with one of felt disconnection, and how individualism then came to be seen as replacing a sense of community in modern society. He investigates the work of a number of 19th-century English writers who were concerned with this breakdown of connections, including Adam Smith, William Wordsworth, Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, and particularly novelists such as Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. He also explores the influence of
Darwin, presents Engels and Marx as precursors of the science of sociology and discusses at length the major founding figures of modern classical sociology: Ferdinand Tonnies, George Simmel, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber.

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'energetic and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'thoroughly engaging, breathing new life into a distinctly jaded subject ... The richness of the cultural references, and the urgency of the arguments, make A New Science an excellent text book for undergraduates. The passionate concern to make the history of the social sciences a matter of moral and political importance for today ought to ensure that the book also commands the attention of teachers in a number of disciplines.' Graham McCann, King's College, Cambridge, Social History of Medicine, Volume 3, Number 3, December 1990

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Introduction	p. ix
Breakers and Lamenters
A Beginning	p. 3
The Break	p. 30
The Lament: Philosophers and a Poet	p. 56
The Lament: Prophets and Novelists	p. 78
Fictions and Facts	p. 106
The Birth of Sociology
Backgrounds and Bridges	p. 129
Revolutionary Sociology: Engels and Marx	p. 144
Academic Sociology: Ferdinand Tonnies	p. 161
Academic Sociology: Georg Simmel	p. 179
Academic Sociology: Emile Durkheim	p. 195
Academic Sociology: Max Weber	p. 217
Some Conclusions
Conclusions and Evaluations	p. 243
Appendix	p. 265
Notes	p. 269
Subject Index	p. 321
Name Index	p. 331
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