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A history of social thought

Chapter 34: Transcriber’s Notes
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About This Book

The author surveys the evolution of ideas about human association, beginning with prehistoric and ancient civilizations and moving through Hebrew, Greek, Roman, Christian, and medieval perspectives. Renaissance and individualistic thinkers lead into modern theorists—population theory, positivism, socialism, geographic and organic analogies, and the early development of sociology—followed by anthropological, eugenic, conflict and cooperation theories, and psycho-sociological approaches. The book concludes with applied and educational sociology, methods of sociological investigation, and the channels by which social ideas spread, offering a systematized overview intended as a foundational background for students.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Incorrect page references in the Table of Contents were corrected.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Page 78: “fifty century” probably is an error for “Fifth century”.

Page 287: Quotation beginning “the spur of all” has no ending quotation mark.

Footnote numbers in this eBook were made unique by prefixing the original Arabic numbers with the Roman chapter numbers.

FOOTNOTE ERRATA

There are many mismatches and omissions between the footnote anchors in the text and the footnotes themselves. Some of them remain unresolved; the Transcriber changed these:

These anchors appear to be either deliberate duplicates or uncorrectable typographical or placement errors:

These anchors are missing and no likely positions for them could be identified:

These apparent footnote errors were corrected:

  • Page 498, Chapter XIII: second Footnote “14” ➝ “15”
  • Page 499, Chapter XVI: second Footnote “16” ➝ “17”
  • Page 503, Chapter XXVI: first Footnote “16” ➝ “15”

This footnote error was uncorrectable: