Society in America (Social Science Classics)

Society in America (Social Science Classics) by Martineau, Harriet. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780878558537.

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 Martineaus brilliant discussion of religious practices, social status, and childrearing; political apathy and the position of women, blacks, and immigrants; and the Americans casual approach to indebtedness and his speculative wealth-or-ruin schemes.