Society in America / Edition 1

by Harriet Martineau

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878558537
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	12/31/1981
Series:	Social Science Classics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	16 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction; I: Politics; II: Parties; III: Apparatus of Government; IV: Morals of Politics; V: Economy; VI: Agriculture; VII: Morals of Economy; VIII: Civilisation; IX: Idea of Honour; Women; XI: Children; XII: Sufferers; XIII: Utterance; XIV: Religion; XV: Spirit of Religion; XVI: Administration of Religion; XVII: Conclusion