ABSTRACT
Ronald Fletcher was emeritus professor of sociology at Reading University. He received his early training in philosophy and economics at the University of Bristol, where he graduated with first class honors, and went on to earn his doctorate in sociology at the London School of Economics. Fletcher was the author of many books, a number of which have taken their rightful place as works of enduring quality. Among these are Instinct in Man; The Family and Marriage in Britain; Human Needs and Social Order; August Comte and the Making of Sociology; The Science of Society and the Unity of Mankind; The Crisis of Industrial Civilization; Evolutionary and Developmental Sociology; and a much reissued trilogy on The Making of Sociology. His passion was more for the quite and solitude of the English countryside than the rough and tumble of professional organizational affairs.
