Links & Readings

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Tom Burns ‘Sociological Explanation’;

B. Eriksson ‘The First Formulation of Sociology: a discursive innovation of the 18th century’, in European Journal of Sociology, 34(2) 1993;

J. Hearn ‘Demos before Democracy: ideas of nation and society in Adam Smith’, in Journal of Classical Sociology, 2015;

K. Kumar ‘Civil Society: an inquiry into the usefulness of a historical term’, in British Journal of Sociology, 44(3) 1993;

D. McCrone ‘Civil Society’ (pdf)