ABSTRACT
On Sunday August 27, 1933, at 12:45 in the afternoon, Earle Edward Eubank, a sociologist, decided to write a book. Because he was a correct man, he wrote a little note recording the fact. During the process of clarifying his intentions, Eubank decided that two books were needed: one was to be called The Making of Sociology, and would deal with the development of sociology in England, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the United States. The second was to be called The Makers of Sociology, and would provide the treatment of about forty such sociological “makers.” In a text dated September 6, 1927, six years before he began Makers of Sociology, Edward Eubank divided his “sociological life” into three periods: 1908–1914 Sociology as a reform and humanitarian movement; 1915–1921 Social institutions, problems, and organization, with chief emphasis on institutions; and 1921–1927 General sociological theory, with especial attention to methodology.
