SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Main Source, Social Fact, On Liberty
11 Feb 2015
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Soan2112 19th century: de tocqueville, martineau, taylor, and mill. In the u. s. social questions prompted methodological innovation. Jane adams social worker constructed first quantitative research in chicago school: american sociology rooted in quest for human improvement, continued importance in french-british connection. Background: member of the distinguished literary circle which includes j. s mill, harriet taylor, a writer first english journalist writing for her living under her own name, translated comte"s cour de philosophie positive to the positive philosophy . Study of how society ought to become a methodologically rigorous discipline in its own right. How to observe manners and morals (1834-1838) instructs travellers how to study foreign cultures. Society in america (1937: wanted to witness workings of democratic institutions. In jacksonian america there was a struggle between aristocracy and democracy. In america, both the people and the wealthy succeed. Principles of universal justice were blatantly contradicted by the institution of slavery.
