Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 / Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions.

by Herbert Spencer

CONTENTS.

• PART I.—THE DATA OF SOCIOLOGY.
  • 1. Super-Organic Evolution.
  • 2. The Factors of Social Phenomena.
  • 3. Original External Factors.
  • 4. Original Internal Factors.
  • 5. The Primitive Man—Physical.
  • 6. The Primitive Man—Emotional.
  • 7. The Primitive Man—Intellectual.
  • 8. Primitive Ideas.
  • 9. The Ideas of the Animate and the Inanimate.
  • 10. The Ideas of Sleep and Dreams.
  • 11. The Ideas of Swoon, Apoplexy, Catelepsy, Ecstacy, and other forms of Insensibility.
  • 12. The Ideas of Death and Resurrection.
  • 13. The Ideas of Souls, Ghosts, Spirits, Demons.
  • 14. The Ideas of Another Life.
  • 15. The Ideas of Another World.
  • 16. The Ideas of Supernatural Agents.
  • 17. Supernatural Agents as causing Epilepsy and Convulsive Actions, Delirium and Insanity, Disease and Death.
  • 18. Inspiration, Divination, Exorcism, and Sorcery.
  • 19. Sacred Places, Temples, and Altars; Sacrifice, Fasting, and Propitiation; Praise and Prayer.
  • 20. Ancestor-Worship in General.
  • 21. Idol-Worship and Fetich-Worship.
  • 22. Animal-Worship.
  • 23. Plant-Worship.
  • 24. Nature-Worship.
  • 25. Deities.
  • 26. The Primitive Theory of Things.
  • 27. The Scope of Sociology.
• PART II.—THE INDUCTIONS OF SOCIOLOGY.
  • 1. What is a Society?
  • 2. A Society is an Organism.
  • 3. Social Growth.
  • 4. Social Structures.
  • 5. Social Functions.
  • 6. Systems of Organs.
  • 7. The Sustaining System.
  • 8. The Distributing System.
  • 9. The Regulating System.
  • 10. Social Types and Constitutions.
  • 11. Social Metamorphoses.
  • 12. Qualifications and Summary.
• PART III.—THE DOMESTIC RELATIONS.
  • 1. The Maintenance of Species.
  • 2. The Diverse Interests of the Species, of the Parents, and of the Offspring.
  • 3. Primitive Relations of the Sexes.
  • 4. Exogamy and Endogamy.
  • 5. Promiscuity.
  • 6. Polyandry.
  • 7. Polygyny.
  • 8. Monogamy.
  • 9. The Family.
  • 10. The Status of Women.
  • 11. The Status of Children.
  • 12. Domestic Retrospect and Prospect.

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CEREMONIAL INSTITUTIONS.

CONTENTS.

• 1. Ceremony in General.
• 2. Trophies.
• 3. Mutilations.
• 4. Presents.
• 5. Visits.
• 6. Obeisances.
• 7. Forms of Address.
• 8. Titles.
• 9. Badges and Costumes.
• 10. Further Class-Distinctions.
• 11. Fashion.
• 12. Ceremonial Retrospect and Prospect.