Compendium of General Sociology - Softcover

Pareto, Vilfredo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816609233 ISBN 13: 9780816609239

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1980

Synopsis

Compendium of General Sociology was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was a social scientist who plated a significant role in the development of sociology, economics, and political science. Society, to Pareto, was governed principally by non-rational forces, and he was critical of all rational explanations and ideologies. He contributed to the development of functionalist and systems theories of social and economic life and was a major influence on the work of talcott Parsons. He was also and advocate of empirical and experimental methods in the social sciences as well as of mathematical sociology and economics. Pareto's classic work, the Trattato di Sociologia Generale (1916), was published by his student Giulio Farina in 1920. Farina was able to rely upon Pareto for corrections and approval of the abridgement. Now, for the first time, this abridged work is available in an English translation, as the Compendium of General Sociology. Elisabeth Abbott participated in the Livingston-Bongiorno translation of the complete Trattato in the 1930s, and she has drawn upon that notable translation (now out of print) in her work on the Compendium. A substantial introduction by sociologist Joseoh Lopreato of the University of Texas provides a historical context for Pareto's work and calls attention to the main lines in his thought.

About this title

About the Author:

Vilfredo Pareto was a lecturer at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Italian (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0816609233
• ISBN 13: 9780816609239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 517
• Editor: Farina Giulio