Social Laws (Classic Reprint): An Outline of Sociology: An Outline of Sociology (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In Social Laws, Gabriel de Tarde explains how societies grow through simple, repeatable patterns that shape history.

This edition presents a clear map of sociology’s aims: to uncover the repetitions, oppositions, and adaptations that organize social life. It argues that science looks at what recurs, what conflicts, and how ideas cohere, then shows how these forces spread from mind to mind. The book also traces how small ideas, copied and mixed, can build the large structures of culture, law, and society.

• Learn the three keys of science: repetition, opposition, and adaptation, and why they matter for sociology.


• See how social change starts with a single invention or idea that is imitated and expanded.


• Explore the rise of peace and war as evolving patterns that stretch from local groups to global relations.


• Understand how differences differentiate yet also unify, shaping labor, language, and institutions.

Ideal for readers seeking a framework to understand why communities evolve and how ideas spread, this book offers a grounded, accessible view of social life.

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