Society in America (Social Science Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878558535 ISBN 13: 9780878558537

Publisher: Routledge, 1981

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

The British scholar Harriet Martineau spent two years travelling throughout the United States before writing this 1837 commentary on American society. Her three-volume work was the culmination of intensive research into the state of US politics, economics, civilisation and religion sixty years after the nation's birth.

About the Author:

Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) authored Society in America (1837) and Retrospect of Western Travel (1838), which are considered to be major analyses of American life.

Seymour Martin Lipset (1922-2006) was professor emeritus of sociology at George Mason University. Among his books are American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword; North American Cultures: Values and Institutions in Canada and the United States; Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics; and Rebellion in the University. He had a long-standing interest in Israel and Jewish affairs, and was past president of the Association of American Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0878558535
• ISBN 13: 9780878558537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Martineau Harriet