Discipline – Sociology

Revised: 1 May 2026

Introduction | Works on Sociology

Introduction

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Works on Sociology

Showing 55 of 55 works
No. Title Page Author The Work Year Discipline Collection
1 Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) (2020).
Editor's Note: One of my Special Projects is the Bastiat Project which consists of putting online the works of Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), as well anthologies and translations I have done, and papers I have written. This sortable table lists 329 articles, pamphlets, and books, as well as 215 letters with links to the individual items where they available. [HTML].
1822 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Collected Works
2 Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866)
Gustave de Beaumont, Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious. Edited by W.C. Taylor (London: Richard Bentley, 1839). 2 vols.
Editor's Note: This is a two volume work. Links to volume 1 are given above. Here are links to volume 2 in HTML, PDF, and ePub. There is also a "2 volumes in 1" version in HTML and ePub. See also the French original.
1839 Political Thought; Politics; Sociology Guillaumin
3 Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866)
Gustave de Beaumont, L’Irlande Sociale, Politique, et Religieuse. Septième Édition entièrement revue et corrigée et précédée d'une Notice sur l'état présent de l'Irlande 1862-1863. (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1863). 2 volumes.
Editor's Note: This is a two volume work. Links to volume 1 are given above. Here are links to volume 2 in HTML, PDF, and ePub. There is also a "2 volumes in 1" version in HTML and ePub. See also the English translation.
1862 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
4 Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866)
Gustave de Beaumont, Marie ou l’esclavage aux États-Unis; Tableau de Mœurs Américaines. Par Gustave de Beaumont. Quatrième Édition. (Paris: Charles Gosselin, MDCCCXL (1840)). 4th ed. 1840. 1st ed. 1835.
1835 Sociology Guillaumin
5 Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862)
Henry Thomas Buckle, History of Civilization in England. By Henry Thomas Buckle. In Three Volumes. New Edition. (Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing Company, 1878).
Editor's Note: 1st edition 1857.
1857 History; Sociology Guillaumin
6 John Elliott Cairnes (1823-1875)
John Elliott Cairnes, The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest. Second edition. Much enlarged and with a new Preface (London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863).
1863 Economics; Sociology Guillaumin
7 Charles Comte (1782-1837)
Charles Comte, Traité de la Propriété. Par Charles Comte. Membre de la Chambre des Députes, Secrétaire perpétuel de l' Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques de l'Institut, Professeur honoraire de Droit a l'Académie de Lausanne, Avocat a la Cour Royale de Paris (Paris: Chamerot, Libraire quai des Augustins, 13; Ducollet, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, 15. M DCCC XXXIV (1834)). 2 vols.
Editor's Note: This is a two volume work. Links to volume 1 are given above. Here are links to volume 2 in HTML, PDF, and ePub. There is also a "2 volumes in 1" version in HTML and ePub.
1834 Sociology Guillaumin
8 Charles Comte (1782-1837)
Charles Comte, Traité de législation, ou exposition des lois générales suivant lesquelles les peuples prospèrent, dépérissent ou restent stationnaire (Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie, 1826-27). Four volumes.
Editor's Note: This is a four volume work. Links to volume 1 are given above. Here are links to volume 2 in HTML, PDF, and ePub; to volume 3 in HTML, PDF, and ePub; to volume 4 in HTML, PDF, and ePub. There is also a "4 volumes in 1" version in HTML and ePub.
1826 Sociology Guillaumin
9 Condorcet (1743-1794)
Condorcet, Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain. Ouvrage posthume de Condorcet (Paris: Agassi, L’an III de la République, une et indivisible). (1795)
1795 History; Sociology Guillaumin
10 Condorcet (1743-1794)
Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind, being a posthumous work of the late M. de Condorcet. (Translated from the French.) (Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1796).
1796 History; Sociology Guillaumin
11 Charles Dunoyer (1786-1862)
Charles Comte, Charles Dunoyer, et al., An Anthology of Articles from Le Censeur and Le Censeur européen (1814-19).
Editor's Note: This anthology (488 pp. ) in French consists of 17 articles from Le Censeur (1814-185) and 18 from Le Censeur européen (1817-1819).
1814 Economics; History; Political Thought; Sociology Anthology; Guillaumin
12 Charles Dunoyer (1786-1862)
Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer, Censoring the State: An Anthology of Articles by Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer from 'Le Censeur' (1814-1815) and 'Le Censeur européen' (1817-1819). Edited and translated by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2026).
Editor's Note: This anthology consists of 17 articles from Le Censeur (1814-185) and 18 from Le Censeur européen (1817-1819) and is 488 pp. long. It is available in three parts: the complete collection of 35 articles in one volume in [HTML]; Part 1 which consists of 17 articles from Le Censeur (1814-1815) in [HTML]; and Part 2 which consists of 18 artiucles from Le Censeur européen (1817-1819) in [HTML].
1814 Economics; History; Law; Political Thought; Sociology Anthology
13 Charles Dunoyer (1786-1862)
Charles Dunoyer, L’Industrie et la morale considérées dans leurs rapports avec la liberté (Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie, 1825).
1825 Sociology Guillaumin
14 Adam Ferguson (1723-1797)
Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society. By Adam Ferguson, LL. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. The Fifth Edition. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; and W. Creech, and J. Bell, Edinburgh. M DCC LXXXII. (1782)).
1782 Sociology Guillaumin
15 Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869)
Thomas Hodgskin, Travels in the North of Germany, describing the Present State of the Social and Political Institutions, the Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Education, Arts and Manners in that Country, particularly in the Kingdom of Hannover, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820).
Editor's Note: This is a two volume work. The links to the files for vol.1 are provided above; here are links to volume 2: PDF; HTML; and ePub. There is also a "2 volumes in 1" version in HTML and ePub.
1820 Sociology Guillaumin
16 John Millar (1735-1801)
John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks: Or, An Inquiry into the Circumstances which give rise to Influence and Authority, in the different Members of Society. By John Millar, Esq. Professor of Law in The University of Glasgow. The Fourth Edition, Corrected. To which is prefixed, An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by John Craig, Esq. (Edinburgh: Printed For William Blackwood, South-Bridge Street; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Paternoster-Row, London. 1806).
1806 Sociology Guillaumin
17 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, The Collected Articles from the Dictionnaire de l'Économie politique (1852-53). Edited and translated into English by David M. Hart (March, 2025 draft).
Editor's Note: This is a translation of Gustave de Molinari, The Collected Articles from the Dictionnaire de l'Économie politique (1852-53). In French, edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2023). [HTML].
1852 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Anthology; Translation
18 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, The Collected Articles from the Dictionnaire de l'Économie politique (1852-53). In French, edited by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2023).
Editor's Note: See the translation of these articles: The Collected Articles from the Dictionnaire de l'Économie politique (1852-53). Edited and translated into English by David M. Hart (March, 2025 draft). 33 items. In HTML
1852 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Anthology
19 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, Économie de l'histoire: Théorie de l'Évolution (Paris: F. Alcan, 1908).
1908 Sociology Guillaumin
20 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, Esquisse de l'organisation politique et économique de la société future (Paris: Guillaumin et cie., 1899).
1899 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
21 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, L’évolution politique et la Révolution (Paris: C. Reinwald, 1884).
Editor's Note: See my translation Political Evolution and the Revolution. Translated and edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025). In HTML.
1884 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
22 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, L’évolution économique du XIXe siècle: théorie du progrès (Paris: C. Reinwald 1880).
1880 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
23 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, Grandeur et décadence de la guerre (The Rise and Fall of War) (Paris: Guillaumin, 1898).
Editor's Note: See the English translation: Gustave de Molinari, The Greatness and Decline of War. Edited and translated by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2025). In HTML.
1898 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
24 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, The Greatness and Decline of War. Edited and translated by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
Editor's Note: A translation of Gustave de Molinari, Grandeur et décadence de la guerre (Paris: Guillaumin,1898). See the French original in facs. PDF and [HTML].
1898 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin; Translation
25 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, Political Evolution and the Revolution. Translated and edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
Editor's Note: This is a translation of: Gustave de Molinari, L’évolution politique et la Révolution (Paris: C. Reinwald, 1884). See the original French version in facs. PDF; HTML; and ePub.
1884 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin; Multi-Pane Readers; Translation
26 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, Political Evolution and the Revolution. Translated and edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
Editor's Note: A translation of Gustave de Molinari, L’évolution politique et la Révolution (Paris: C. Reinwald, 1884). See the French original in facsimile PDF and [HTML].
1884 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
27 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, Les Problèmes du XXe siècle (Paris: Guillaumin, 1901).
1901 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
28 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, Religion (Paris: Guillaumin et Cie, 1892).
1892 Philosophy; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
29 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, Revolutions and Despotism considered from the Perspective of Material Interests (1852). Translated by David M. Hart (The Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
Editor's Note: This is a translation ofwas a lecture given at the Museum of Industry in Brussels, on October 4, 1852. It was published in a book along with a Letter he wrote to Count Arrivabene: Gustave de Molinari, Les Révolutions et le despotisme envisagés au point de vue des intérêts matériels; précédé d'une lettre à M. le Comte J. Arrivabene, sur les dangers de la situation présente, par M. G. de Molinari, professeur d'économie politique (Brussels: Meline, Cans et Cie, 1852). Deuxième Partie, pp. 81-152. See the original French version in facs. PDF and [HTML].
1852 Sociology Translation
30 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, Les Révolutions et le despotisme envisagés au point de vue des intérêts matériels; précédé d'une lettre à M. le Comte J. Arrivabene, sur les dangers de la situation présente, par M. G. de Molinari, professeur d'économie politique (Brussels: Meline, Cans et Cie, 1852). Deuxième Partie, pp. 81-152.
Editor's Note: This was a lecture given at the Museum of Industry in Brussels, on October 4, 1852. It was published in a book along with a Letter he wrote to Count Arrivabene. Only the lecture is in HTML
1852 Sociology
31 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
Gustave de Molinari, A Sketch of the Political and Economic Organisation of the Society of the Future. Edited and translated by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
Editor's Note: See also my introduction to the translation in HTML. A translation of Gustave de Molinari, Esquisse de l'organisation politique et économique de la société future (Paris: Guillaumin et cie., 1899). See the original French version in facsimile PDF and [HTML]. It was first translated in 1904 as The Society of Tomorrow: A Forecast of its Political and Economic Organization, ed. Hodgson Pratt and Frederic Passy, trans. P.H. Lee Warner (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904). In facs. PDF and HTML.
1899 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin; Translation
32 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912)
The Works of Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) (2023).
Editor's Note: One of my Special Projects is the Molinari Project which consists of putting online the essays and books of Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) as well as anthologies and translations I have done and essays I have written. This sortable table lists of over 300 items including 44 stand alone books, 8 Introductions or Prefaces he wrote for other books, 3 Journals he edited, 17 Pamphlets which were reprints of journal articles, and 249 Articles he wrote for magazines and journals, with links to the individual items where available. [HTML].
1842 Economics; Political Thought; Sociology Collected Works
33 Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Charles Louis de Secondat baron Montesquieu, De l' Esprit des Lois. Nouvelle Édition, Revue, corrigée, & considérablement augmentéé par l' Auteur. (Londres, MDCCLXXVII (1777). 4 vols.
1748 Law; Sociology Guillaumin
34 Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941)
Gaetano Mosca, Elementi di scienza politica. Seconda edizione con una seconda parte inedita. (Torino: Fratelli Boca, 1923).
1923 Sociology Guillaumin
35 Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945)
Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, The State (Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1950).
Editor's Note: Third Impression. First 1935. Second 1946.
1935 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
36 Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943)
Franz Oppenheimer, Der Staat (Frankfurt am Main: Literarische Anstalt. Rotten & Loening, 1907).
Editor's Note: This is the first, short version of what would laster become a much longer work: Franz Oppenheimer, System der soziologie. Zweiter Band: Der Staat (Jena: G. Fischer, 1926).
1907 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
37 Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943)
Franz Oppenheimer, System der soziologie. Zweiter Band: Der Staat (Jena: G. Fischer, 1926). See the short version - Der Staat (1907).
1907 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
38 Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Vilfredo Pareto, An Application of Sociological Theories. Translated and edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2025).
Editor's Note: A translation of Vilfredo Pareto, “Un’ applicazione di teorie sociologiche,” Rivista Italiana di sociologia, (Luglio 1900), p. 401-45. See the original Italian version in facs. PDF and HTML.
1900 Sociology Translation
39 Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Vilfredo Pareto, “Un’applicazione di teorie sociologiche,” Rivista Italiana di sociologia, (Luglio 1900), pp. 402-456.
Editor's Note: See my translation "An Application of Sociological Theories" (2025) in HTML. Translated earlier as The Rise and Fall of the Elites: An Application of Theoretical Sociology. Introduction by Hans L. Zetterberg (Totowa, New Jersey: The Bedminster Press, 1968).
1900 Sociology
40 Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Vilfredo Pareto, Traité de sociologie générale. Édition française par Pierre Boven. Revue par l’auteur. Volume I (Paris: Librairie Payot, 1917). Volume II (Paris: Librairie Payot, 1919).
Editor's Note: This is a two volume work with volume 1 appearing in 1917 and volume 2 in 1919. Links to volume 1 are given above. Here are links to volume 2 in HTML, PDF, and ePub. There is also a “2 volumes in 1” version in HTML. See also the MultiPane version.
1917 Sociology Guillaumin; Multi-Pane Readers
41 Georg Simmel (1858–1918)
Georg Simmel, Philosophie des Geldes. Zweite, vermehrte Auflage. (Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1907).
Editor's Note: See also the 1930 edition: Georg Simmel, Philosophie des Geldes. Fünfte, unveränderte Auflage. (München und Leipzig: Duncker & Humboldt, 1930).
1907 Economics; Sociology Guillaumin
42 Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Adam Smith, Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms. Delivered In The University of Glasgow by Adam Smith. Reported by a Student in 1763. And Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Edwin Cannan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896).
1763 Economics; Law; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
43 Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology, in Three Volumes (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898).
Editor's Note: The authorized third edition. This is a three volume work. Links to volume 1 are given above. Here are links to volume 2 in HTML, PDF, and ePub. Here are links to volume 3 in HTML, PDF, and ePub. There is also a "3 volumes in 1" version in HTML.
1898 Sociology Guillaumin
44 William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
The Collected Essays of William Graham Sumner (1872-1910) (2024).
Editor's Note: After Sumner's death in 1910 Yale University Press published a four volume collection of his essays and talks edited by Albert Galloway Keller between 1913 and 1919. They are listed here in a sortable table with links to the individual essays (115 items) [HTML].
1872 Political Thought; Sociology Collected Works
45 William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
William Graham Sumner, Earth-Hunger and Other Essays, ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913).
1913 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
46 William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
William Graham Sumner, The Challenge of Facts and Other Essays, ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914).
1914 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
47 William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man and Other Essays, ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918).
1918 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
48 William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
William Graham Sumner, War and Other Essays, ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919).
1919 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
49 William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes owe to Each Other (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883).
1883 Sociology Guillaumin
50 Augustin Thierry (1795-1856)
Augustin Thierry, L'Industrie littéraire et scientifique liguée avec l'industrie commerciale et manufacturière, ou Opinions sur les finances, la politique, la morale et la philosophie, dans l'intérêt de tous les hommes livrés à des travaux utiles et indépendans. Tome Premier. Seconde Partie. Politique. (Paris: Delaunay, 1817).
1817 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
51 Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Alexis de Tocqueville, L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution. Deuxième Édition (Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1856).
1856 History; Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
52 Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
De la Démocratie en Amérique. Par Alexis de Tocqueville, Membre de l’Institut. Revue, corrigée et augmentée d’un Avertissement et d’un Examen comparatif de la Démocratie aux États-Unis et en Suisse. (Paris: Pagnerre, Éditeur. Rue de Seine, 14 Bis, 1848).
1835 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
53 John Wade (1788–1875)
John Wade, Appendix to the Black Book: An Exposition of the Principles and Practices of the Reform Ministry and Parliament: the Church and the Dissenters; Catastrophe of The House of Lords; and Prospects of Tory Misrule: With Tables of Ecclesiastical and Election Statistics, and Corrections of Former Editions of The Black Book. By the Original Editor. Sixth Edition, with The ‘Crisis’ and a Characteristic List of the Anti-Reform Government. (London: Published By Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. MDCCCXXXV (1835)).
1835 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
54 John Wade (1788–1875)
John Wade, The Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law, Municipal Corporations, and Public Companies; With a Précis of the House of Commons, Past, Present, and to Come. A New Edition, greatly enlarged and corrected. By the original Editor. With an Appendix. (London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. MDCCCXXXV (1835).)
1835 Political Thought; Sociology Guillaumin
55 Friedrich Wieser (1851-1926)
Friedrich von Wieser, Das Gesetz der Macht (Wien: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1926).
1926 Economics; Sociology Guillaumin