Reintroducing Harriet Martineau

ISBN-13: 9780367637613 / Twarda / 2023 / 128 str.

Gaby Weiner

Opis

Through an examination in each chapter of the writings that best illustrate her sociological perspective, this book examines Martineau’s efforts to develop a ‘scientific’ approach to understanding social and societal change, thus demonstrating her enduring contribution and continuing relevance to sociology.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introducing Harriet Martineau

Chapter 2: Sociological Analysis and Methodology

Chapter 3: The Condition of Women

Chapter 4: Educational Perspectives

Chapter 5: Fighting Slavery

Chapter 6: Health Care and Hospitals

Chapter 7: Environmentalism and Experimentation

Chapter 8: Journey to Secularism

Chapter 9: Experience of Disability to Sociology of Disability

Chapter 10: Harriet Martineau’s Sociological Legacy

Bibliography: selected works of Harriet Martineau

Bibliography: secondary sources

 

O autorze

Stuart Hobday is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and the author of Encounters with Harriet Martineau.

Gaby Weiner has held a number of professorial and honorary research positions in the UK and Sweden. Her publications include Feminisms in Education, Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Educational and Social Change, Kids in Cyberspace, Reconstructing and Deconstructing Lives, Tales of Loving and Leaving, and Harriet Martineau and the Birth of the Disciplines.