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This book provides answers to two sorts of questions. It explores, on the one hand, how and what sociological ideas were developed in the Scottish Enlightenment. And, on the other hand, how the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment would emerge and develop in subsequent traditions of sociology. Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed and refined a descriptive-explanatory approach and methodology to explore social and economic processes - an approach that was different from the normative and justificatory aspirations of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century social and political philosophies. This distinct contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment is frequently overlooked, even if some of its central figures are acknowledged as important forerunners of contemporary social sciences.
This book offers a synoptic view on individual contributions and a connective view of theoretical achievements that are otherwise typically treated in isolation.
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Chapter 1. The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment: An Introduction - Tamás Demeter
Part I. General perspectives
Chapter 2. Human Nature and Social Change: Historical Institutionalism in the Scottish Enlightenment - Christopher Berry
Chapter 3. The Adventitious Sociology: Dispassion and Insight in the Scottish Enlightenment - Kenneth Macdonald
Part II. Sociological Ideas in the Scottish Enlightenment
Chapter 4. Adam Ferguson as Founding Father of Sociology - Craig Smith
Chapter 5. "Partly social, partly selfish": The Social Evolutionism of Henry Home, Lord Kames - Robin Mills
Chapter 6. Pre-Weberian Theories of Charismatic Leadership and the Aesthetics of Deference in the Scottish Enlightenment - Spyridon Tegos
Chapter 7. Sociology within the Statistical Account of Scotland - Kenneth Macdonald
Part III. The Sociological Afterlife of the Scottish Enlightenment
Chapter 8. Hegel and the Notion of Retroactive Necessity in the Scottish Enlightenment - Dirk Schuck
Chapter 9. Traces of Hume in Sociology - Angela Coventry
Chapter 10. Hume and Durkheim: Common Views on Sociality - Catherine Dromelet
Chapter 11. Westermarckian Evolutionary Perspective on Scottish Moral Sentimentalism - Otto Pipatti
Chapter 12. In Praise of Adam Smith, or the Workings of Commercial Society - John A. Hall
Chapter 13. John Millar and Sociology: Disciplinary History and Its Discontents - Nicholas Miller
Chapter 14. 'Das Adam Smith Problem': A Sociological Reassesment - Aldo Mascareno and Leonidas Montes
Chapter 15. The Foundational Document of the Sociology of Knowledge - Tamás Demeter
