This chapter examines sociology as an emerging discipline in Great Britain and France between the 1850s and the 1890s. It considers the transfer of models, metaphors, and analogies from evolutionary biology and argues that sociology emerged in continued interaction with this biology. It also analyzes interactions of social thought and Lamarckian evolutionary theories. The chapter focuses on the work of two social theorists who were influential internationally and in their respective countries, Great Britain and France---Herbert Spencer (1820--1903) and Émile Durkheim (1858--1917).
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