Sharif wore a cape, and other soch bio's.

October 25, 2009 1:33 PM

Are there books on the history of sociology (or social psycology) told through the sociologists?

I finished Bill Brysons book "A brief history of everything" a few months back and enjoyed it. Today I heard an anicdote about my first love, social psycology. It mentioned that a snide remark from Freud to Gordon Allport about Allport being a dirt fetisisht helped to speed up the movement away from Freudian psych in America. I want more! Does a book like this exist?

posted by elationfoundation to food & drink (2 comments total)

Craig Calhoun's edited volume, Sociology in America: A History might be what you're looking for, but I doubt it will be as witty or engaging as Bryson's book.
posted by proj at 2:51 PM on October 25

Four Sociological Traditions by Randall Collins (1994, Oxford University Press)
posted by HP LaserJet P10006 at 5:24 PM on October 25