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This volume brings together some of the biggest names in the
field of sociology to celebrate the work of Pitirim A. Sorokin,
professor and founder of the department of sociology at Harvard
University. Sorokin, a past president of the American Sociological
Association, was a pioneer in many fields of research, including
sociological theory, social philosophy, methodology, and sociology
of science, law, art, and knowledge. Edward A. Tiryakian's updated
introduction examines major factors, inside and outside sociology,
that have led to new appreciation of Sorokin's contributions and
scholarship, and demonstrates their continued relevance. This new
edition also includes an updated bibliography of works by and about
Sorokin.
The volume includes Arthur K. Davis, who describes Sorokin's
importance as a teacher in the Socratic tradition. Talcott Parsons
examines internal differentiation in Christianity in its historical
Western development. Thomas O'Dea deals with the
institutionalization of religious values. Walter Firey examines how
actors relate their conception of a distant future to their present
behavior. Florence Kluckhohn focuses upon the problem of cultural
variations within a social system. Robert K. Merton and Elinor
Barber examine the sociological aspect of ambivalence. Bernard
Barber considers the American business's efforts to
institutionalize professionalism.
Other contributors include Charles P. Loomis, Wilbert E. Moore,
Georges Gurvitch, Marion J. Levy, Jr., Nicholas S. Timasheff, Carle
Zimmerman, and Logan Wilson. This volume is an essential collection
of essays concerning the work of one of the most prominent thinkers
in twentieth-century sociology.
Martineau's classic American travel narrative has long been
unavailable. This new abridgment of the original 1838 edition
offers an unsurpassed firsthand view of Jacksonian America. Here
are Martineau's penetrating condemnation of slavery and her
championship of abolition and women's rights; her incisive
portraits of Jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Garrison, Emerson,
and the Beechers; her critical observations of American schools,
asylums, colleges, and prisons; and more. Historian Daniel Feller,
author of The Jacksonian Promise, introduces the narrative,
identifies the major characters, and provides an index for easy
use.
Martineau's classic American travel narrative has long been
unavailable. This new abridgment of the original 1838 edition
offers an unsurpassed firsthand view of Jacksonian America. Here
are Martineau's penetrating condemnation of slavery and her
championship of abolition and women's rights; her incisive
portraits of Jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Garrison, Emerson,
and the Beechers; her critical observations of American schools,
asylums, colleges, and prisons; and more. Historian Daniel Feller,
author of The Jacksonian Promise, introduces the narrative,
identifies the major characters, and provides an index for easy
use.
This volume brings together some of the biggest names in the field
of sociology to celebrate the work of Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor
and founder of the department of sociology at Harvard University.
Sorokin, a past president of the American Sociological Association,
was a pioneer in many fields of research, including sociological
theory, social philosophy, methodology, and sociology of science,
law, art, and knowledge. Edward A. Tiryakian's updated introduction
examines major factors, inside and outside sociology, that have led
to new appreciation of Sorokin's contributions and scholarship, and
demonstrates their continued relevance. This new edition also
includes an updated bibliography of works by and about Sorokin. The
volume includes Arthur K. Davis, who describes Sorokin's importance
as a teacher in the Socratic tradition. Talcott Parsons examines
internal differentiation in Christianity in its historical Western
development. Thomas O'Dea deals with the institutionalization of
religious values. Walter Firey examines how actors relate their
conception of a distant future to their present behavior. Florence
Kluckhohn focuses upon the problem of cultural variations within a
social system. Robert K. Merton and Elinor Barber examine the
sociological aspect of ambivalence. Bernard Barber considers the
American business's efforts to institutionalize professionalism.
Other contributors include Charles P. Loomis, Wilbert E. Moore,
Georges Gurvitch, Marion J. Levy, Jr., Nicholas S. Timasheff, Carle
Zimmerman, and Logan Wilson. This volume is an essential collection
of essays concerning the work of one of the most prominent thinkers
in twentieth-century sociology.
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.
How to Observe Morals and Manners is the first systematic and
substantive treatise on the methodology of sociological research.
First published in 1838 and long out of print, this new edition
presents for modern students research techniques used by those
whose work has been the foundation for present day social science.
The book is based upon two years of intensive field research in the
United States, and is a pioneering benchmark for all subsequent
methodology texts in sociology.
Martineau charts a comprehensive guide to sociological
observation, exploring problems of bias, hasty generalization,
samples, reactivity, interviews, participant observation,
corroboration, and data recording techniques. Couching her
observations as advice to travellers visiting foreign lands, she
warns against preconceptions and urges strict reporting of observed
patterns of cross-sections of social life. She also illustrates how
to use interview data to corroborate observational data. Pragmatic
tips and specific questions are suggested for exploring the major
institutions of society, including religion, education, marriage,
popular culture, markets, prisons, police, media, government, fine
arts, and charities.
Intended as a treatise on methodology, the book is also an
insightful work of theory. Before Marx, and well before Durkheim
and Weber, Martineau examined social class, forms of religion,
types of suicide, national character, domestic relations and the
status of women, delinquency and criminology, and the intricate
interrelationships between social institutions and the individual.
The book will be of interest to sociologists, geographers,
anthropologists, historians, and researchers in women's studies.
The introduction by Michael R. Hill locates the book within
Martineau's overall epistemology of social analysis, revealing her
to be a reflexive, critical, and scientific pioneer of sociological
thought.
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.
French philosopher and social scientist AUGUSTE COMTE (1798-1857)
developed the notion of sociology as a field that could be studied,
invented the term altruism, and in this groundbreaking work,
created a system of principles and ideas-a rational "religion"-that
has since come to influence humanism across the Western world. In
Volume I, Comte offers an overview of human history as distilled
through the "positive" perspective; details the positivism of
mathematics, astronomy, biology, physics, and chemistry; and
refines the functioning of human consciousness as an aspect of
positivism. First published in English in 1853, this is an
extraordinary synthesis of thought that is required reading for
anyone wishing to understand the development of the scientific,
secular mindset of the modern world.
A of the 1838 edition of Martineau's famed travel account of the
United States in the Jacksonian era. Despite the hostile reception
accorded some of Mrs. Martineau's comments on slavery, her
perceptive observations on American life in the 1830's have
particular relevance to today's student of history. This is the
complete and unabridged edition. This title is cited and
recommended by Books for College Libraries; Guide to the Study of
the United States of America; Usiana; Literature of American
History; and the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
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