Jean Floud review of ‘Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology’
posted here (PDF above)
review of Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences
By Pitirim A. Sorokin
reviewed by Jean Floud
British Journal of Educational Studies
Volume VI, Number 1 (November 1957)
pp. 84-86
Jean Esther Floud (1915-2013) was a prominent sociologist. She was the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1972 to 1983.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
April 2024
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