Sociology & Social Progress (In 2 Volumes)

Thomas Nixon carver, the David A. Wellis Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard University compiled this extraordinary handbook which has remained a classic since its publication. He believed that some of the most significant contributors to our knowledge of society have been made not by writers who profess to be sociologists but by men who have turned their attention to those phases of social life which lie nearest their special field of inquiry. This belief is fully reflected in the contributors he selected for the book. The volume not only served as n introductory text to the discipline, but continued many innovative papers, which re-defined social research for years to come. Carver brought together the best possible overview of the contributions on sociology at his time. It gives a comprehensive overview of our field but it is also daringly innovative –reminiscent to some of the by now classical chapters, in terms of giving voice to new areas of investigations.