Envisioning Sociology: Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the Quest for Social Reconstruction (SUNY Press Open Access) - Hardcover

"By reviving the ideas of these two largely forgotten pioneers of British sociology, Scott and Bromley have made a significant contribution toward understanding the true complexity of the growth of sociology in the early twentieth century." -- Contemporary Sociology

"...Branford and Geddes' work and that of the Sociological Society deserves recognition and Scott and Bromley's research would be a great platform for introducing them in a freshman level sociology course." -- International Social Science Review

"Scott and Bromley are illuminating and sure-footed about the intellectual field that spawned the [sociological] Society. Theirs is surely an exhaustive account of the group's contribution to social reconstruction, politics, planning, civics, culture and education and, above all, sociology." -- Sociological Review

"...a significant contribution ... the most substantial effort to date to recover the life and work of a circle of early twentieth-century thinkers ... punchy and highly readable." -- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

"...a valuable book which will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars of the intellectual history of the later Victorian period." -- Journal of Victorian Culture