Chapter I: Front Matter

A HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHT

A HISTORY OF
SOCIAL THOUGHT

BY
EMORY S. BOGARDUS, PH.D.

_Professor and Head of Department of Sociology and Social Work
University of Southern California_

_Author of_
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
ESSENTIALS OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ESSENTIALS OF AMERICANIZATION

1922
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRESS
3474 UNIVERSITY AVENUE
LOS ANGELES

Copyright 1922, University of Southern California Press

JESSE RAY MILLER
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRESS
LOS ANGELES

DEDICATED TO MY STUDENTS
WHO ARE TRANSFORMING THEIR SOCIAL THOUGHT
INTO HELPFUL LIVING

CONTENTS

1. THE NATURE OF SOCIAL THOUGHT 11

2. EARLIEST SOCIAL THOUGHT 20

3. THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS 36

4. THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF THE HEBREWS 54

5. PLATO AND GRECIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT 74

6. ARISTOTLE AND GRECIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT 101

7. ROMAN SOCIAL THOUGHT 114

8. EARLY CHRISTIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT 121

9. SOCIAL THOUGHT IN THE MIDDLE AGES 145

10. MORE AND UTOPIAN SOCIAL THOUGHT 154

11. INDIVIDUALISTIC SOCIAL THOUGHT 173

12. MALTHUS AND POPULATION CONCEPTS 199

13. COMTE AND POSITIVE SOCIAL THOUGHT 209

14. MARX AND SOCIALISTIC SOCIAL THOUGHT 226

15. BUCKLE AND GEOGRAPHIC SOCIAL THOUGHT 246

16. SPENCER AND ORGANIC SOCIAL THOUGHT 257

17. THE SOCIOLOGY OF LESTER F. WARD 277

18. ANTHROPOLOGIC SOCIOLOGY 301

19. EUGENIC SOCIOLOGY 325

20. CONFLICT THEORIES IN SOCIOLOGY 338

21. CO-OPERATION THEORIES IN SOCIOLOGY 352

22. PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGIC THOUGHT 367

23. PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGIC THOUGHT (_continued_) 389

24. THE TREND OF APPLIED SOCIOLOGY 423

25. THE RISE OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY 442

26. THE SOCIOLOGY OF MODERN CHRISTIANITY 451

27. METHODS OF SOCIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION 475

28. THE DISSEMINATION OF SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT 489

INDEX 504