Antoine-Augustin Cournot as a Sociologist

• Main Author: Leroux, Robert (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Historical sociology.; Sociology.; Political sociology.; Historical Sociology.; Sociological Theory.; Political Sociology.; Knowledge - Discourse.

The thinking of Antoine-Augustin Cournot has inspired a growing literature in economy and epistemology, but as of yet, his sociological thought has not been explicitly discussed and contextualized within the discipline. From the 1850s to the end of the 1870s, Cournot contributed significantly to the...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. - Chapter 1: Context and General Ideas of the Book
• Chapter 2: The Necessity of History
• Chapter 3: Epistemological Issues
• Chapter 4: Action, Rationalism, and Social Change
• Chapter 5: The Study of the Social Milieu
• Chapter 6: Cournot and the French Sociological Tradition. - Conclusion .