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

Originally published: London: Croom Helm, 1974.

Professor Duverger at last provides the student with an overall view of the methodology of the social sciences. He briefly traces the origin of the notion of a

The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from t

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