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The Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer (1908) online edition; Spencer, Herbert. Spencer: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) edited by John Offer (1993) Spencer, Herbert. Social Statics: The Man Versus the State; Spencer, Herbert. The Study of Sociology; full text online free Archived 17 August 2011 at the ...
Herbert Spencer He was in many ways the first true sociological functionalist. [ 12 ] In fact, while Durkheim is widely considered the most important functionalist among positivist theorists, it is known that much of his analysis was culled from reading Spencer's work, especially his Principles of Sociology (1874–96).
Economist Murray Rothbard called Social Statics "the greatest single work of libertarian political philosophy ever written." [3]In Lochner v.New York, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., dissenting from the Supreme Court's holding that state legislation forbidding bakers from working more than ten hours a day or sixty hours a week violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to ...
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This list of sociologists includes people who have made notable contributions to sociological theory or to research in one or more areas of sociology This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The early sociology of Herbert Spencer came about broadly as a reaction to Comte. Writing after various developments in evolutionary biology, Spencer attempted (in vain) to reformulate the discipline in what we might now describe as socially Darwinistic terms (although Spencer was a proponent of Lamarckism rather than Darwinism).
Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy, 1862–1892; Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867–1894; John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, The Subjection of Women, 1869; William Stanley Jevons, The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, 1874; Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, 1874
Herbert Spencer, a contemporary of Darwin, applied the term to the universe, including philosophy and what Tylor would later call culture. [12] This view of the universe was generally termed evolutionism, while its exponents were evolutionists. [13] In 1871 Tylor published Primitive Culture, becoming the originator of cultural anthropology. [14]