Thoreau and the sociological imagination
Subtitle: the wilds of society
By: Shawn Chandler Bingham
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780742560581; 9780742560598
Subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Political and social views; Social change; Sociology -- Methodology; United States -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.123-129) and index
Table of contents: title: Disciplinary disobedience; title: The seeds and fruit of thoreauvian thought; title: Social structure and the American individual; title: "Progress," social development, and social change; title: Thoreau's social inquiry; title: Thoreau as a model for "reimagining" sociology