Stuart Hobday, Gaby Weiner

Reintroducing Harriet Martineau (eBook, ePUB)

Pioneering Sociologist and Activist

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003801726
• Artikelnr.: 69067838

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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