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A collection of writings by the "founding fathers" of sociology that provides an invaluable primary research resource for professors, students, and laypersons interested in the birth and growth of the social sciences. This book fills a void by assembling seminal writings from many original works that created the "science of society" - by Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, George Herbert Mead, Ferdinand Tonnies, Georg Simmel, Thorsten Veblen, Max Weber, and other "founding fathers" of sociology. The seminal writings in this anthology originally appeared in articles and...

Seminal Sociological Writings, Volume 2: From Harriet Martineau to W.E.B. Du Bois continues our mission to provide professors, students, and laypersons with invaluable primary resources on the birth and growth sociology-the "science of society." Like its predecessor-Seminal Sociological Writings: From Auguste Comte to Max Weber-this anthology is composed of primary source documents that originally appeared in articles and books published between the mid-nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. They therefore allow modern readers to see how the pioneering sociological thinkers...

This unique anthology has one primary goal: to inspire or motivate students to want to learn and use statistics. Through carefully selected readings by the founders of statistics and probability, contemporary statisticians, and well-known individuals in the arts, politics, and science, Dancing on the Tails of the Bell Curve provides readers with role models who have experienced joy from their use of statistics and concrete examples of how statistics shape almost every decision in society that affect our medications, food supply, educational programs, sporting events, mass media, and...