The Political Context of Sociology

The author traces 19th-century origins of sociology in post-Revolutionary Europe, and contrasts European and American approaches to sociological data. Using the concepts of mass behavior and mass society as case studies, he suggests the continuing influence of social and political philosophies in sociology to the present day. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

Context (archaeology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Classics · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · History · Law · Political sociology

• L’assimilation et les études ethniques en Amérique du Nord

  Open Access•Michel Del Balso•Cahiers de recherche sociologique•1984

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• Explaining the Puzzle of Homeless Mobilization

  Open Access•Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Catherine Corrigall‐brown et al.•Sociological Perspectives•2009

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• The Ideologies of American Social Critics

  Open Access•David R Simon•Journal of Communication•1977

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• When Robert E. Park was (Re) writing “the city”

  Open Access•Pierre Lannoy•The American Sociologist•2004

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• Politics and markets

  Open Access•Wayne Parsons•Cambridge history of twentieth-cent…•2003

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• Critics of totalitarianism

  Open Access•Jeffrey C Isaac•Cambridge history of twentieth-cent…•2003

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• Fascism and racism

  Open Access•Stanley G Payne•Cambridge history of twentieth-cent…•2003

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• The advent of the masses and the making of the modern theory of democracy

  Open Access•R Bellamy•Cambridge history of twentieth-cent…•2003

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• A Selective History of Sociology

  Open Access•Alan Sica•The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to…•2011

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• Conservatism

  Open Access•Noël O’sullivan•Cambridge history of twentieth-cent…•2003

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• Nationalism and imperialism

  Open Access•James Mayall•Cambridge history of twentieth-cent…•2003

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• The end of the welfare state?

  Open Access•Robert E Goodin•Cambridge history of twentieth-cent…•2003

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• The coming of the welfare state

  Open Access•Michael Freeden•Cambridge history of twentieth-cent…•2003

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• Christian democracy

  Open Access•Mario Caciagli•Cambridge history of twentieth-cent…•2003

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• Karl Marx

  Murray N Rothbard, Murray Ν Rothbard•The Review of Austrian Economics•1990

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• Mobs, Crowds, and Trolls

  Tai Neilson, Kara Ortiga•Digital Journalism•2023

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• Minding the Workers

  Open Access•Ellen O’connor, Ellen O'Connor•Organization•1999

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• Die verband tussen ideologie en sosiale wetenskap (The relationship between ideology and social science)

  Riana Prinsloo•South African Journal of Sociology•1990

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• The Sociology of Collective Behavior

  B E Aguirre•21st century sociology•2007

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• Deutsche‘ Soziologie im Exil

  Open Access•Sven Papcke•Handbuch Geschichte der…•2018

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• The Intellectual and Modernization

  Open Access•Charles D Smith•Comparative Studies in Society…•1980

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• The Problem of the Convergence of Industrial Societies

  Open Access•Ian Weinberg•Comparative Studies in Society…•1969

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• Toward a Sociology of the State and War

  Open Access•Daniel R Huebner•European Journal of Sociology•2008

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• Neglected Characteristics of Collective Behavior

  Jack M Weller, E L Quarantelli•American Journal of Sociology•1973

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• Progressive propaganda critics and the magic bullet myth

  J Michael Sproule•Critical Studies in Mass…•1989

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• Who Participates in What

  Open Access•Dale Rogers Marshall•Urban Affairs Quarterly•1968

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• Linguistic isolation of American social psychology

  Lorenz J Finison, Charles L Whittemore•American Psychologist•1975

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• Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of the constitution

  Open Access•Chris Thornhill•Journal of Classical Sociology•2010

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• Body to Body

  Open Access•C Borch•Sociological Theory•2009

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• Ortega y Gasset, Democracy, and the Rule of the People

  Alec Dinnin•Hispanic Research Journal•2019

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• The Post-1933 Emigration of Communication Researchers from Germany

  Open Access•Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, Stefanie Averbeck•European Journal of Communication•2001

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• Law and Sociology

  Roger Cotterrell, Roger B M Cotterrell•Journal of Law and Society•1986

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• A Multivariate Analysis of Some Attitudinal and Ideological Correlates of Student Activism

  Arthur G Cryns, Jeremy D Finn•Sociology of Education•1973

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• Propaganda and American Ideological Critique

  J Michael Sproule•Annals of the International…•1991

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• Propaganda Critique

  Garth Sjowett•Annals of the International…•1991

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• Crowds and Total Democracy

  C Borch•Distinktion Journal of Social…•2006

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• Modernity and crowds

  Rebecca L Lee•Distinktion Journal of Social…•2014

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• Constructing mass tourism

  Open Access•Jim Butcher•International Journal of Cultural…•2020

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• Between mass society and revolutionary praxis

  Open Access•Richard L Kaplan•European Journal of Cultural…•2012

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• The historical imaginary of social science in post-Revolutionary France

  Open Access•W Jay Reedy•History of the Human Sciences•1994

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• The Theory That Won't Die

  Open Access•Irene Taviss Thomson•Sociological Forum•2005

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• Collectivity, connectivity and control

  Rebecca L Lee•International Review of Sociology•2021

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• A re‐assessment of the ‘mass culture’ controversy

  Graham Vulliamy•Popular Music & Society•1975

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• The changing evaluation of knowledge

  Graham C Kinloch•Sociological Spectrum•1985

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• One-Eyed Social Movements

  Open Access•Michael A Cavanaugh•Philosophy of the Social Sciences•1987

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• The Sociologist from Marienbad

  Open Access•Robin R Das, Hermann Strasser•Czech Sociological Review•2015

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• William James and Symbolic Interactionism

  Gil Richard Musolf•Sociological Focus•1994

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• On the Institutionalization of Sociology in the United States

  Russell R Dynes•Sociological Focus•1973

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• The Theory of Voluntary Associations in a Cross-Cultural Perspective

  Open Access•T K Oommen•Sociological Bulletin•1975

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• The Habit of Deference

  Open Access•Fred D Schneider•Journal of British Studies•1977

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• Political Sociology in the United States

  Open Access•Philo C Wasburn•Human Relations•1974

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• Two deadly diseases and one nearly fatal cure

  Open Access•Larry T Reynolds•The American Sociologist•1998

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• The nature of sociological knowledge

  Open Access•Bruce Keith•The American Sociologist•2006

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• Sociologists and american prohibition

  Open Access•Timothy P Rouse•The American Sociologist•1991

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• American Religious Exceptionalism

  Open Access•Edward A Tiryakian•The Annals of the American…•1993

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• Fifteen Pages that Shook the Field

  Open Access•Jefferson Pooley•The Annals of the American…•2006

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• The Revolt against Americanism

  Floren Matthews, F H MATTHEWS•Canadian Review of American Studies•1970

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• A Critical Encounter

  Open Access•M Hammersley•British Journal of Educational…•2025

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• Is it research or just walking? Framing walking research methods as “non-scientific

  Open Access•Robert Bartłomiejski, Maciej Kowalewski•Geoforum•2020

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• Natural law, state formation and the foundations of social theory

  Open Access•Chris Thornhill•Journal of Classical Sociology•2013

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• The Evolution of Models of Mass Communication and Persuasion

  Ellen Wartella, Susan E Middlestadt et al.•Health Communication•1991

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• The Exclusion of the Crowd

  Open Access•C Borch•European Journal of Social Theory•2006

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• Blumer's Theory of Collective Behavior

  Open Access•Clark Mcphail•Sociological Quarterly•1989

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• Perspectives on our past

  Veikko Pietilä•Critical Studies in Mass…•1994

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• Perspectives on the Concept of Social Control

  Robert F Meier•Annual Review of Sociology•1982

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• Social Movement Theory and the Sociology of Religion

  John A Hannigan, John Hannigan•Sociological Analysis•1991

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• Americans All

  Open Access•Philip Gleason•The Review of Politics•1981

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• Lo social y su aprendizaje en la obra de leopold von wiese

  Open Access•José Joaquín Rodríguez-González•Revista Española de Investigaciones…•1993

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• Toward an Old New Paradigm the Half-Century Flirtation With Mass Society

  James R Beniger•Public Opinion Quarterly•1987

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• Foreign Involvement in the Preconditions for Political Violence

  Open Access•Harold R Kerbo•Journal of Conflict Resolution•1978

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• The Deferential English

  Open Access•Dennis Kavanagh•Government and Opposition•1971

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• An Underestimated Alternative

  Open Access•Hans Joas•Symbolic Interaction•1992

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• Charles Horton Cooley, Pragmatist or Belletrist? The Complexity of Influence and the Decentering of Intellectual Traditions

  Open Access•Glenn Jacobs•Symbolic Interaction•2012

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• Karl Mannheim on Fascism

  Open Access•M Hammersley•Sociological Research Online•2023

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• Presidential Address

  Open Access•Wright, Susan E Wright•Sociological Quarterly•1993

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• From Conflict Theory to Conflict Methodology

  Open Access•Timothy Lehmann, Timothy C Lehmann et al.•Sociological Inquiry•1974

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• The Radical Perspective in Sociology

  Open Access•Steven E Deutsch, Steven Deutsch•Sociological Inquiry•1970

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• Mobilization and Meaning

  Open Access•Myra Marx Ferree, Frederick D Miller•Sociological Inquiry•1985

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• Industrial Society

  Open Access•Richard Badham•Current Sociology•1984

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• Planning versus the market

  Open Access•M Hammersley•British Journal of Sociology•2021

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• The Ethnological Theories of Henry Sumner Maine1

  Open Access•Henry Orenstein•American Anthropologist•1968

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• Should Sociology be Normative

  Open Access•M Hammersley•The American Sociologist•2023

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• American sociology’s changing interests as reflected in two leading journals

  Open Access•Graham C Kinloch•The American Sociologist•1988

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• Sociology as an Art Form

  Robert A Nisbet, Robert Nisbet•Sociology as an art form.•1962

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• Crowds and economic life

  C Borch•Economy and Society•2007

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