The History of Sociology in Britain

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Did British Sociology Begin with the Scottish Enlightenment?

Chapter 3 Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Social Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 4 Making Sense of Christopher Dawson

Chapter 5 Richard Titmuss, Eugenics, and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century Britain

Chapter 6 Social Status, Social Position and Social Class in Post-War British Society

Chapter 7 ‘Poor Cousins’: The Lost History of Sociology in the Polytechnics

Chapter 8 Anglo-America: The Case of Edward Shils, Sociologist, 1910–1995

Chapter 9 No Longer Oblivion: Sociology Courses Before the ‘First’ Sociology Course

Chapter 10 The Rise of the Social Sciences in British Education, 1960–2016

Chapter 11 The Teaching of Research Methods in British Sociology in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 12 Sociology and Statistics in Britain: The Strange History of Social Mobility Research and Its Latter-Day Consequences

Chapter 13 What Kind of ‘Ology’? Two Cultures and the Success of British Sociology