The History of Sociology in Britain: New Research and Revaluation

1. Introduction; Plamena Panayotova. Part 1: Disputed Origins. 2. Did British Sociology Begin with the Scottish Enlightenment?; Kenneth Macdonald. 3. Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Social Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Lawrence Goldman. Part 2: Neglected Legacies. 4. Making Sense of Christopher Dawson; Garrett Potts and Stephen Turner. 5. Richard Titmuss, Eugenics, and Social Science in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain; Chris Renwick. 6. Social Status, Social Position and Social Class in Post-war British Society; Colin Mills. 7. 'Poor Cousins': The Lost History of Sociology in the Polytechnics; Geoff Payne. 8. Anglo-America: The Case of Edward Shils, Sociologist, 1910-1995; Martin Bulmer. Part 3: Teaching Sociology.- 9. No Longer Oblivion: Sociology Courses before the 'First' Sociology Course; Christopher T. Husbands. 10. The Rise of the Social Sciences in British Education, 1960 - 2016; Peter Mandler. 11. The Teaching of Research Methods in British Sociology in the Twentieth Century; Plamena Panayotova. Part 4: Historical Peculiarities. 12. Sociology and Statistics in Britain: The Strange History of Social Mobility Research and its Latter-Day Consequences; John H. Goldthorpe.- 13. What Kind of 'ology'? Two Cultures and the Success of British Sociology; John MacInnes.