| Society in America Contributor(s): Martineau, Harriet (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138533122 ISBN-13: 9781138533127 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness |
| Dewey: 973 |
| Physical Information: 357 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Harriet Martineau brought to her observations the convictions of a vehement English liberal and an astonishingly modern sociological approach. In 1834 she wrote the first draft of How to Observe Manners and Morals--perhaps the earliest book on the methodology of social research. In abridging the 800-page original for the modern reader, Lipset has concentrated on Martineau's brilliant discussion of religious practices, social status, and childrearing; political apathy and the position of women, blacks, and immigrants; and the American's casual approach to indebtedness and his speculative wealth-or-ruin schemes. |
