TY - BOOK AU - Benton, Ted TI - Philosophical foundations of the three sociologies SN - 9781138788077 U1 - 301.01 PY - 1977/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Sociology -- History. KW - Philosophy, Modern -- History N1 - 1. Introduction 2. Auguste Comte and Positivist Sociology 3. The Natural Sciences: Contemporary Positivism and the Concept of Explanation 4. The Natural Sciences: The Positivist Conception of Scientific Theory and its Competitors 5. Positivism and Ideology in the Work of Emile Durkheim 6. Kant and the Neo-Kantians 7. The Methodology of Max Weber, and Peter Winch's `Corrections' 8. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Philosophy of History and Theory of Knowledge 9. Towards a Materialist Theory of Knowledge ER -