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Lester Ward and the welfare state

Lester Frank Ward and Henry Steele Commager
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter (page i)
  • Introduction (page xi)
  • Bibliography (page xxxix)
  • Editor's Note (page xlii)
  • 1. Autobiographical Sketch, 1913 (page 3)
  • 2. The Nature of Dynamic Sociology, 1883 (page 11)
  • 3. The Rising School of Philosophy, 1870 (page 15)
  • 4. Scientific Lawmaking, 1877 (page 18)
  • 5. "Theory and Practice Are at War," 1881 (page 22)
  • 6. The Wastefulness of Nature, 1882 (page 37)
  • 7. Dynamic Sociology, 1883 (page 41)
  • 8. "The Laissez Faire Doctrine is Suicidal," 1884 (page 63)
  • 9. "Art is the Antithesis of Nature," 1884 (page 69)
  • 10. Moral and Material Progress, 1885 (page 85)
  • 11. Broadening the Way to Success, 1886 (page 99)
  • 12. False Notions of Government, 1887 (page 106)
  • 13. Some Social and Economic Paradoxes, 1889 (page 117)
  • 14. Psychic Factors of Civilization, 1893 (page 130)
  • 15. Plutocracy and Paternalism 1895 (page 178)
  • 16. Herbert Spencer (page 193)
  • 17. Social Genesis, 1895, 1897 (page 225)
  • 18. Collective Telesis, 1895, 1897 (page 234)
  • 19. Ethical Aspects of Social Science, 1896 (page 244)
  • 20. Utilitarian Economics, 1896, 1898 (page 254)
  • 21. The Gospel of Action, 1899 (page 271)
  • 22. The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1900 (page 279)
  • 23. Social Mechanics, 1900 (page 291)
  • 24. Contemporary Sociology, 1902 (page 301)
  • 25. Evolution of Social Structure, 1904 (page 327)
  • 26. Applied Sociology, 1906 (page 342)
  • 27. The Establishment of Sociology, 1906 (page 369)
  • 28. Ends Become Means, 1907 (page 377)
  • 29. What Brings Out Genius, 1907 (page 380)
  • 30. Social and Biological Struggles, 1906, 1907 (page 391)
  • 31. Artificial and Natural Inequalities, 1908 (page 403)
  • 32. Education and Progress, 1909 (page 409)
  • 33. Sociology and the State, 1910 (page 416)
  • 34. Social Progress, 1912 (page 426)
  • INDEX (page 429)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SF 46.3 (Mar. 1968): 415-416 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2574898
ASR 33.4 (Aug. 1968): 637-638 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2092455
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Published: c1967
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
ISBN(s)
  • 9780672509988 (hardcover)
Series
  • The Works of Henry Steele Commager
Subject
  • Methods/Theory
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