British Social Theory

Recovering Lost Traditions before 1950

By: John Scott

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Hardcover | 30 June 2018

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A unique contribution to discussions of social theory, this book counters the argument that no social theory was ever produced in Britain before the late twentieth century. Reviewing a period of 300 years from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, it sets out a number of innovative strands in theory that culminated in powerful contributions in the classical period of sociology. The book discusses how these traditions of theory were lost and forgotten and sets out why they are important today.

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It is high time that widely-held myths about the historical backwardness of British sociology were exploded. Social Theory in Britain represents a fundamental challenge to the study of national traditions in social theory. Beginning with the central problem of unintended consequences in the Scottish enlightenment, John Scott, the leading authority on the history of British social theory, provides an eminently readable account of a largely forgotten and misrecognised sociological tradition, without succumbing to the charismatic blinkers of nationalist sociology. The main themes of early British sociology detected by Scott focus critically on social structure, cultural idealism, developmental processes, and economic sociology. By the twentieth century ambitious sociological syntheses were being produced by three major social theorists, Patrick Geddes, Robert MacIver and Leonard Hobhouse, which arguably stand comparison with better known social theories being produced elsewhere in Europe and the US.

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