The Fathers of Sociology:
                 Personal Troubles and Public Issues
    in the lives of Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Max Weber and Karl Marx.

                           by Ted George Goertzel

This paper was published in Spanish as: "Los Padres de la Sociologia. Problemas personales y temas publicos," Boletin de Psicología (Valencia,Spain) 41:7-30, 1993, but has never appeared on paper in English.  Click here for a copy