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 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