Robert Perrin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3994689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Perrin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Perrin |
| SIGNATURE | PERRIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4731-036X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology
On the occasion of its recent centennial, we trace the remarkable history of Herbert Spencer's 2,240 page Principles of Sociology , the most inductive, systematic, and comprehensive study of human society ever attempted. Spencer's bold aim was to establish empirically and then to explain (after the manner of the natural sciences) the 'relations of co-existence and sequence' among social phenomena. The database ('mass of evidence') required was so…
Auguste Comte
Herbert Spencer; a Primary and Secondary Bibliography
Émile Durkheim's Division of Labor and the Shadow of Herbert Spencer
This article assesses Durkheim's theory of the division of labor in advanced societies relative to Spencer's views on the subject. It seeks to correct a key chapter in the history of sociological thought, for it is in his classic 1893 work that Durkheim is presumed to have routed both Spencer's account of the division of labor and his larger theory of man and society. In fact, Spencer and Durkheim differ very little in their conceptions of the ca…
Herbert Spencer
Journal Article Herbert Spencer: A Renewed Appreciation, by Jonathan H. Turner. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1985, 160 pp. $16.95; 7.95 (paper) Get access Robert G. Perrin Robert G. Perrin University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711595 Published: 01 October 1988
Frédéric Le Play on Family, Work, and Social Change. Catherine Bodard Silver
Nothing is True
Politics and Markets
The Social and Political Thought of Herbert Spencer
The Social Bond
Herbert Spencer's Four Theories of Social Evolution
Although there is at present a revival of critical interest in Spencer, more disagreement than agreement exists among scholars regarding the exact nature of his social evolutionism. It is here argued that the single term "social evolution" was actually applied by Spencer to four quite different theories-an inherent source of difficulty for his readers. This essay, which strongly affirms each discipline's need for an accurate history of itself, pr…
Durkheim's Misrepresentation of Spencer
THE MAJOR THESIS of Robert A. Jones' timely Response to Spencer: An Essay Toward Historicism in the Historiography of Sociology is that much of Durkheimian sociology was constructed in conscious opposition to the sociology of (1974:355). There is, Jones (1974:344) points out, no concise analysis of Durkheim's response to Spencer. After quite rightly stressing the need-from the point of view of the history of sociology-for this kind of inquiry, Jo…
Models of Social Order
Good Tidings
The Functionalist Theory of Change Revisited
Émile Durkheim's Division of Labor and the Shadow of Herbert Spencer
This article assesses Durkheim's theory of the division of labor in advanced societies relative to Spencer's views on the subject. It seeks to correct a key chapter in the history of sociological thought, for it is in his classic 1893 work that Durkheim is presumed to have routed both Spencer's account of the division of labor and his larger theory of man and society. In fact, Spencer and Durkheim differ very little in their conceptions of the ca…
The Social Bond
Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology
On the occasion of its recent centennial, we trace the remarkable history of Herbert Spencer's 2,240 page Principles of Sociology , the most inductive, systematic, and comprehensive study of human society ever attempted. Spencer's bold aim was to establish empirically and then to explain (after the manner of the natural sciences) the 'relations of co-existence and sequence' among social phenomena. The database ('mass of evidence') required was so…
Herbert Spencer's Four Theories of Social Evolution
Although there is at present a revival of critical interest in Spencer, more disagreement than agreement exists among scholars regarding the exact nature of his social evolutionism. It is here argued that the single term "social evolution" was actually applied by Spencer to four quite different theories-an inherent source of difficulty for his readers. This essay, which strongly affirms each discipline's need for an accurate history of itself, pr…
Auguste Comte
Herbert Spencer
Journal Article Herbert Spencer: A Renewed Appreciation, by Jonathan H. Turner. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1985, 160 pp. $16.95; 7.95 (paper) Get access Robert G. Perrin Robert G. Perrin University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711595 Published: 01 October 1988
Durkheim's Misrepresentation of Spencer
THE MAJOR THESIS of Robert A. Jones' timely Response to Spencer: An Essay Toward Historicism in the Historiography of Sociology is that much of Durkheimian sociology was constructed in conscious opposition to the sociology of (1974:355). There is, Jones (1974:344) points out, no concise analysis of Durkheim's response to Spencer. After quite rightly stressing the need-from the point of view of the history of sociology-for this kind of inquiry, Jo…
Models of Social Order
The Functionalist Theory of Change Revisited
Good Tidings
The Functionalist Theory of Change Revisited
Durkheim's Misrepresentation of Spencer
THE MAJOR THESIS of Robert A. Jones' timely Response to Spencer: An Essay Toward Historicism in the Historiography of Sociology is that much of Durkheimian sociology was constructed in conscious opposition to the sociology of (1974:355). There is, Jones (1974:344) points out, no concise analysis of Durkheim's response to Spencer. After quite rightly stressing the need-from the point of view of the history of sociology-for this kind of inquiry, Jo…
Models of Social Order
Herbert Spencer's Four Theories of Social Evolution
Although there is at present a revival of critical interest in Spencer, more disagreement than agreement exists among scholars regarding the exact nature of his social evolutionism. It is here argued that the single term "social evolution" was actually applied by Spencer to four quite different theories-an inherent source of difficulty for his readers. This essay, which strongly affirms each discipline's need for an accurate history of itself, pr…
The Social Bond
Politics and Markets
The Social and Political Thought of Herbert Spencer
Nothing is True
Frédéric Le Play on Family, Work, and Social Change. Catherine Bodard Silver
Herbert Spencer
Journal Article Herbert Spencer: A Renewed Appreciation, by Jonathan H. Turner. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1985, 160 pp. $16.95; 7.95 (paper) Get access Robert G. Perrin Robert G. Perrin University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711595 Published: 01 October 1988
Émile Durkheim's Division of Labor and the Shadow of Herbert Spencer
This article assesses Durkheim's theory of the division of labor in advanced societies relative to Spencer's views on the subject. It seeks to correct a key chapter in the history of sociological thought, for it is in his classic 1893 work that Durkheim is presumed to have routed both Spencer's account of the division of labor and his larger theory of man and society. In fact, Spencer and Durkheim differ very little in their conceptions of the ca…
Auguste Comte
Herbert Spencer; a Primary and Secondary Bibliography
Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology
On the occasion of its recent centennial, we trace the remarkable history of Herbert Spencer's 2,240 page Principles of Sociology , the most inductive, systematic, and comprehensive study of human society ever attempted. Spencer's bold aim was to establish empirically and then to explain (after the manner of the natural sciences) the 'relations of co-existence and sequence' among social phenomena. The database ('mass of evidence') required was so…
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