Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination - The Wilds of Society

Informationen zum Autor Shawn Chandler Bingham is assistant professor of sociology at Saint Leo University in Florida. Klappentext Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination: The Wilds of Society is the first in-depth sociological examination of the ideas of Henry David Thoreau. Through explorations of Thoreau's intellectual links to early social thinkers, as well as the mainstay Thoreauvian concerns for the individual-society relationship, social change, and deconstructing society's idea of progress, Bingham illustrates the sophistication of Thoreau's sociological imagination challenging readers to re-examine the disciplinary boundaries between the social sciences and the humanities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Preface 2 Chronology 3 Chapter One: Disciplinary Disobedience 4 Chapter Two: The Seeds and Fruit of Thoreavian Though 5 Chapter Three: Social Structure and the American Individual 6 Chapter Four: "Progress," Social Development and Social Change 7 Chapter Five: Thoreau's Social Inquiry 8 Chapter Six: Thoreau as a Model for "Reimagining" Sociology 9 References

Product details

• Authors: Shawn Chandler Bingham
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2007
• EAN: 9780742560581
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-6058-1
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Society & social sciences, Society and Social Sciences