The Invention of Society: Psychological Explanations for Social Phenomena

"This book is stimulating and important." Times Higher Education Supplement

"Elegantly written and persuasively argued." Political Studies

"Moscovici provides a useful psychological perspective on the work of three major sociological thinkers [Durkheim, Weber and Simmel]. The volume richly deserved the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Theory that it won." Contemporary Sociology

"Moscovici's achievement is rare and seminal: he has made social theory exciting again, a field of rewarding exploration and intellectual adventure." Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds

"This is a book which offers a challenging and radical argument to social scientists of all shades, and one which deserves to be widely read." Gerard Duveen, University of Cambridge