num_pages: 358
description: 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.
language: English
title: Society in America
titlecomplete: Society in America (Social Science Classics)
genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, History, Social Science
ratings_count: 33
publisher: Routledge