Nature of Sociology

Mike Gane is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University. He has published widely on Durkheimian sociology, on Baudrillard, and his has edited two collections on Foucault.  His recent writings have concerned Comte, Marx, Mauss, Lyotard, Canguilhem, Baudrillard, Derrida, and Virilio.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionMike GaneSociology(with Paul Fauconnet)Sociology: Its Divisions and Their Relative WeightingsChapter 1. The Sequence or Order of the Parts of SociologyChapter 2. On the Proportions of the Parts of SociologyChapter 3. Concrete Divisions of SociologyChapter 4. The Place of Applied Sociology or PoliticsAdditional Bibliographical NoteIndex