Paul Hanly Furfey. Three Theories of Society. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937.

A substantial work of social theory by Paul Hanly Furfey, sociologist, Catholic priest, and longtime professor at the Catholic University of America. In this book, Furfey examines three competing models of society and develops his own explicitly Catholic and philosophical approach to social order.

Published in 1937, Three Theories of Society is one of Furfey’s major theoretical works and was reviewed at the time in both the American Sociological Review and The Journal of Religion. Later scholarship has continued to treat it as an important statement of his distinctive effort to connect sociology, ethics, philosophy, and Catholic social thought.

Of interest to collectors and readers in sociology, Catholic social thought, social philosophy, intellectual history, and the history of American social science.

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