The History of Sociology in Britain

Plamena Panayotova has written a doctoral thesis on the history of British Sociology and Statistics and currently teaches quantitative methods and statistical literacy at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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.