SOAN 2112 Chapter : Martineau

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Promoted teh values of the enlightenment her entire life. First english woman journalist writing for a living under her own name. study of scoeity ought to become a methodology rigourous discipline in its own right. study of society needed to be coined as its own subjet matter. researcher could turn to the arts to hear the morals. Books show the spirit of the people, newspapers show political will. The american republic had demonstrated that pople can govern themselves. declaration of independence embodied the principles of universal justice, but these principles were contraditcted by the institution of slavery. The new republic was also not a classless society aristocratic class and the people. differences in mobs: in europe is was the poor peasantry rising against oppression, in america it was the gentlemen of social status rallying. gangs of new york: link birth of american democracy and birth of american crime.