Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology, vol. 3 (1898) [1885]

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The Principles of Sociology, in Three Volumes (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898). Vol. 3.

Author: Herbert Spencer

This is vol. 3 of the third revised edition of Herbert Spencer’s magnum opus on sociology which was first published in 1876. In vol. 1 he defines what his theory of sociology is, how human beings associate with each other in communities, how institution evolve over time, and begins his analysis of institutions with a section on the family, marriage, women and children. In vol. 2 he covers “ceremonial” institutions and political institutions (with his famous distinction between militant and industrial types of society). In vol. 3 he discusses ecclesiastical institutions, professional institutions, and “industrial” (or economic) institutions.

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PREFACE.
PREFACE TO PART VI.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
CONTENTS OF VOL. III.
The Principles of Sociology, Vol. III
PART VI: ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTIONS.
CHAPTER I: THE RELIGIOUS IDEA.
CHAPTER II: MEDICINE-MEN AND PRIESTS.
CHAPTER III: PRIESTLY DUTIES OF DESCENDANTS.
CHAPTER IV: ELDEST MALE DESCENDANTS AS QUASI-PRIESTS.
CHAPTER V: THE RULER AS PRIEST.
CHAPTER VI: THE RISE OF A PRIESTHOOD.
CHAPTER VII: POLYTHEISTIC AND MONOTHEISTIC PRIESTHOODS.
CHAPTER VIII: ECCLESIASTICAL HIERARCHIES.
CHAPTER IX: AN ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM AS A SOCIAL BOND.
CHAPTER X: THE MILITARY FUNCTIONS OF PRIESTS.
CHAPTER XI: THE CIVIL FUNCTIONS OF PRIESTS.
CHAPTER XII: CHURCH AND STATE.
CHAPTER XIII: NONCONFORMITY.
CHAPTER XIV: THE MORAL INFLUENCES OF PRIESTHOODS.
CHAPTER XV: ECCLESIASTICAL RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT.
CHAPTER XVI.*: RELIGIOUS RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT.
PART VII: PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
CHAPTER I: PROFESSIONS IN GENERAL.
CHAPTER II: PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
CHAPTER IV: ORATOR AND POET, ACTOR AND DRAMATIST.
CHAPTER V: BIOGRAPHER, HISTORIAN, AND MAN OF LETTERS.
CHAPTER VI: MAN OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHER.
CHAPTER VII: JUDGE AND LAWYER.
CHAPTER VIII: TEACHER.
CHAPTER IX: ARCHITECT.
CHAPTER X: SCULPTOR.
CHAPTER XI: PAINTER.
CHAPTER XII: EVOLUTION OF THE PROFESSIONS.
PART VIII: INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTIONS.
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER II: SPECIALIZATION OF FUNCTIONS AND DIVISION OF LABOUR.
CHAPTER III: ACQUISITION AND PRODUCTION.
CHAPTER IV: AUXILIARY PRODUCTION.
CHAPTER V: DISTRIBUTION.
CHAPTER VI: AUXILIARY DISTRIBUTION.
CHAPTER VII: EXCHANGE.
CHAPTER VIII: AUXILIARY EXCHANGE.
CHAPTER IX: INTER-DEPENDENCE AND INTEGRATION.
CHAPTER X: THE REGULATION OF LABOUR.
CHAPTER XI: PATERNAL REGULATION.
CHAPTER XII: PATRIARCHAL REGULATION.
CHAPTER XIII: COMMUNAL REGULATION.
CHAPTER XIV: GILD REGULATION.
CHAPTER XV: SLAVERY.
CHAPTER XVI: SERFDOM.
CHAPTER XVII: FREE LABOUR AND CONTRACT.
CHAPTER XVIII: COMPOUND FREE LABOUR.
CHAPTER XIX: COMPOUND CAPITAL.
CHAPTER XX: TRADE-UNIONISM.
CHAPTER XXI: COOPERATION.
CHAPTER XXII: SOCIALISM.
CHAPTER XXIII: THE NEAR FUTURE.
CHAPTER XXIV: CONCLUSION.
REFERENCES.
TITLES OF WORKS REFERRED TO.

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