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| Author | Vilfredo Pareto |
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| Original title | Trattato di Sociologia Generale |
| Translator | Andrew Bongiorno, Arthur Livingston, James Harvey Rogers |
| Language | Italian |
| Subject | Sociology |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
Publication date | 1916 |
Published in English | 1935 |
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The Mind and Society (Italian: Trattato di Sociologia Generale, lit. "Treatise on General Sociology") is a 1916 book by the Italian sociologist and economist Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923). In this book Pareto presents the first sociological cycle theory, centered on the concept of an elite social class.
The Mind and Society has been named, by Martin Seymour-Smith, as one of the most influential books ever written. The English edition was published in 1935. An abridged version, Compendium of General Sociology (Italian: Compendio di Sociologia Generale), was published in Italian in 1920 and English in 1980.