The Essays in this volume explore the work of Harriet Martineau from a sociological perspective, highlighting her theoretical contributions in the areas of the sociology of labor, gender and political economy. The contributors each offer a contextual, theoretical and methodological assessment of her work beginning with the opportunities and challenges of utilizing Martineau pedagogically in the sociology classroom.
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Michael R. Hill is Chair-Elect of the American Sociological Association's Section on the History of Sociology and is the editor of the sesquicentennial edition of Harriet Martineau's How to Observe Morals and Manners.
Susan Hoecker-Drysdale is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Concordia University, Montreal, and is the author of Harriet Martineau: First Woman Sociologist.
Susan Hoecker-Drysdale is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Concordia University, Montreal, and is the author of Harriet Martineau: First Woman Sociologist.
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THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS BOOK, SOCIOLOGISTS ALL, TAKE HARRIET Martineau seriously as a major and consequential intellect within their chosen discipline and their classrooms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harriet Martineau, United States, Daily News, Illustrations of Political Economy, Florence Nightingale, Household Words, Adam Smith, Auguste Comte, New England, North America, Retrospect of Western Travel, Alexis de Tocqueville, Edinburgh Review, Mary Jo Deegan, Charles Dickens, Contagious Diseases Acts, Crimean War, Eastern Life, George Eliot, George Lewes, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Martineau's Society, Middle East, Monthly Repository New!
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THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS BOOK, SOCIOLOGISTS ALL, TAKE HARRIET Martineau seriously as a major and consequential intellect within their chosen discipline and their classrooms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harriet Martineau, United States, Daily News, Illustrations of Political Economy, Florence Nightingale, Household Words, Adam Smith, Auguste Comte, New England, North America, Retrospect of Western Travel, Alexis de Tocqueville, Edinburgh Review, Mary Jo Deegan, Charles Dickens, Contagious Diseases Acts, Crimean War, Eastern Life, George Eliot, George Lewes, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Martineau's Society, Middle East, Monthly Repository New!
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- How to Observe. Morals and Manners by Harriet Martineau on 21 pages
- The Positive Philosophy (Language, man, and society: foundations of the behavioral sciences) by Auguste Comte on 11 pages
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman:The Makings of a Radical Feminist 1860 - 1896 by Mary A. Hill on 7 pages
- Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (Dover Books on Biology) by Florence Nightingale on 5 pages
- Harriet Martineau (Twayne's English Authors Series) by Gillan Thomas on 5 pages
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- Beyond the Enlightenment: Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists by Roger A. Salerno on page 41, and Back Matter
- Beyond the Enlightenment: Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists by Roger A. Salerno on page 41, and Back Matter
- Social Ethics: Sociology and the Future of Society by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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