Michael R Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 83050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael R Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael R |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9168-211X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How to Observe Morals and Manners
How to Observe Morals and Manners is the first systematic and substantive treatise on the methodology of sociological research. First published in 1838 and long out of print, this new edition presents for modern students research techniques used by those whose work has been the foundation for present-day social science. The book is based upon two years of intensive field research in the United States, and is a pioneering benchmark for all subsequ…
Witches and Demons
Witches and Demons: A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(2), pp. 355–356
Ward, Lester Frank (1841–1913)
Lester Frank Ward, a man of modest origins born in Joliet, Illinois, was a major architect of American sociology. Prior to his election to the first presidency (1906–1907) of the American Sociological Society (now the American Sociological Association), academic sociology in the United States had no independent national disciplinary organization save the unifying voice of the American Journal of Sociology , then edited by Albion W. Small at the U…
Pound, Roscoe (1870–1964)
Roscoe Pound, sociologist, ecologist, and noted jurist, originated and promulgated the legal movement known as the American school of sociological jurisprudence. This revolutionary perspective remains the single most consequential application of sociological thinking in American society. Pound's sociological theories and empirical methodologies fundamentally transformed the prosecution and administration of US law for a full half‐century
Harriet Martineau
Table of Contents Preface Foreward - Helena Znaniecka Lopate 1. Introduction: Harriet Martineau and the Sociological Perspectives - Michael R. Hill and Susan Hoecker-Drysdale 2. Teaching Harriet Martineau: Biographical Synopsis and Pedagogical Primer - Michael R. Hill 3. 'Words on Work': Harriet Martineau's Sociology of Work and Occupations: Part I: Her Philosophy of work - Susan Hoecker-Drysdale 4. 'Words on Work': Harriet Martineau's Sociology …
Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China
Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China: A Case Study of the Influence of Christian Ethics on Business Life JOY KOOI-CHIN TONG, 2012 London & New York: Anthem Press xi + 167 pp., £
American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association (ASA) is currently the largest and most influential membership organization of professional sociologists in the USA. The ASA began its organizational life in 1905 when a small group of self‐selected scholars representing several existing scholarly organizations (including the American Economic Association, the American Historical Association, and the American Political Science Association) proposed a separate…
Annie Marion MacLean, Feminist Pragmatist and Methodologist
Annie Marion MacLean was a major Chicago sociologist and methodologist. She was profoundly influenced by the gendered division of labor in sociology during her era. MacLean combined her work with the men and women of the early Chicago school of sociology and the women of Hull-House, an early social settlement. As a feminist pragmatist, MacLean was both a theorist and practitioner who used qualitative and quantitative methods. She set precedents i…
American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association (ASA) is currently the largest and most influential membership organization of professional sociologists in the US. The ASA began its organizational life in 1905 when a small group of self‐selected scholars representing several existing scholarly organizations (including the American Economic Association, the American Historical Association, and the American Political Science Association) proposed a separate …
Howard, George Elliott (1849–1928)
George Elliott Howard, a distinguished social scientist trained initially in history, rose to the presidency of the American Sociological Society in 1917. Howard earned the A.B. in 1876 at the University of Nebraska. Following two years of advanced study in Germany, Howard joined the Nebraska faculty in 1879. Howard's most prominent Nebraska student from this period, Amos Griswold Warner, later wrote American Charities (1894) – a standard classic…
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860–1935)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an influential and sometimes controversial contributor to early American sociology. Her Women and Economics (1898) launched a searching feminist sociological critique of the economic position of women in patriarchal societies. The primary site for Gilman's continuing sociological work was the Forerunner (1909–16), a monthly journal that Gilman wrote and self‐published. The socially problematic issues that Gilman explo…
Figuring Out How to Talk About Mixed Identity
Social Ethics
First serialized in 1914, Social Ethics attempts to convince readers that individualist ethics have failed to make the world a safe place for children, and that we cannot progress to a fully social ethics unless we understand the morality of collective action from a specifically sociological point of view. Gilman argues that in order to be fully progressive, ethics must shift from its traditional focus on individual behaviors to the structure, mo…
Citizenship and Social Closure
The Dress of Women
Harriet Martineau
Le Play
Archival Strategies and Techniques
Auguste Comte
Archival Strategies and Techniques
Introduction Archival Sedimentation Structure, Control, and Technology Getting Started 'Targets' and 'Tool Kits' Orientation Interviews Confronting the 'Black Box' Problem Life in the Reading Room Strategies for Organizing Archival Data Methodological Complexities Publication, Citations, and Permissions Non-Archival Data Sources
Harriet Martineau
The young dissenter the inveterate educator the sociologist abroad controversial afflictions the historian and social scientist the journalist par excellence after the harvest a woman of principle
Aspen
Becoming Mature
Presents an integrated theory of development and maturation focusing on the influence of childhood experience on adult women. The book draws on the theories of Mead, Habermas, and Schutz, and on narratives and group discussions to analyze case studies
The Gypsy Scholar
The Role and Nature of the Doctoral Dissertation
A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain
Harriet Martineau
The young dissenter the inveterate educator the sociologist abroad controversial afflictions the historian and social scientist the journalist par excellence after the harvest a woman of principle
Doctoral Dissertations as Liminal Journeys of the Self
The sociology dissertation process is a liminal journey, a passage characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty, and crisis in which the student self is abandoned and a new professional self claims a world ofpower.authority, maturity, and responsibility.The theoretical perspectives ofvictor Turner, Arnold Van Gennep, and George H. Mead are extended to conceptualize the "liminal self who undertakes this di@xlt and problematic journey of transformation.…
Typologie sociologique de l'ordre religieux
Ideal types of forms of Christian organisation have proved fruitful in the Sociology of Religion, and a review of the main features of types in this area suggests that religious orders may be analysed in this way. Starting from a definition of the basic theological concepts - ascetism, monasticism and dif ferent uses of the term ' religious order ' - an ideal type of the religious order is constructed which shows the main features of such organiz…
Epistemology, Axiology, and Ideology in Sociology
This paper (a) presents a systems framework for conceptualizing epistemological issues in sociology, (b) links this framework to axiological responsibilities, and then (c) .locates both the epistemological and axiological discussions within the patriarchal ideology and hierarchical power structure of American sociology. It is argued that adopting an activist, emancipatory ideological position obligates social scientists to critically review their…
Harriet Martineau
Novels, Thought Experiments, and Humanist Sociology in the Classroom
Based upon teaching Mari Sandoz' allegorical novel, Capital City, as part of Introduction to Sociology for three semesters, this report outlines the characteristics of sociologically useful novels from a humanist perspective. A key characteristic is the extent to which novelists not only conduct thought experiments but also stimulate student thinking and research. The pedagogical dimensions of thought experiments are explicated and the positive o…
Annie Marion MacLean, Feminist Pragmatist and Methodologist
Annie Marion MacLean was a major Chicago sociologist and methodologist. She was profoundly influenced by the gendered division of labor in sociology during her era. MacLean combined her work with the men and women of the early Chicago school of sociology and the women of Hull-House, an early social settlement. As a feminist pragmatist, MacLean was both a theorist and practitioner who used qualitative and quantitative methods. She set precedents i…
Howard, George Elliott (1849–1928)
George Elliott Howard, a distinguished social scientist trained initially in history, rose to the presidency of the American Sociological Society in 1917. Howard earned the A.B. in 1876 at the University of Nebraska. Following two years of advanced study in Germany, Howard joined the Nebraska faculty in 1879. Howard's most prominent Nebraska student from this period, Amos Griswold Warner, later wrote American Charities (1894) – a standard classic…
Sociology
An introduction to sociology. It incorporates discussion of recent developments in both social theory and empirical social research - developments to which Giddens has directly contributed
A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain
Sociology in Britain
Typologie sociologique de l'ordre religieux
Ideal types of forms of Christian organisation have proved fruitful in the Sociology of Religion, and a review of the main features of types in this area suggests that religious orders may be analysed in this way. Starting from a definition of the basic theological concepts - ascetism, monasticism and dif ferent uses of the term ' religious order ' - an ideal type of the religious order is constructed which shows the main features of such organiz…
A Sociology of Religion
A Sociology of Religion
Weber and Islam
Axiological Dialogue in Geography
The Religious Order
Epistemology, Axiology, and Ideology in Sociology
This paper (a) presents a systems framework for conceptualizing epistemological issues in sociology, (b) links this framework to axiological responsibilities, and then (c) .locates both the epistemological and axiological discussions within the patriarchal ideology and hierarchical power structure of American sociology. It is argued that adopting an activist, emancipatory ideological position obligates social scientists to critically review their…
Novels, Thought Experiments, and Humanist Sociology in the Classroom
Based upon teaching Mari Sandoz' allegorical novel, Capital City, as part of Introduction to Sociology for three semesters, this report outlines the characteristics of sociologically useful novels from a humanist perspective. A key characteristic is the extent to which novelists not only conduct thought experiments but also stimulate student thinking and research. The pedagogical dimensions of thought experiments are explicated and the positive o…
The Intellectual Legacy of Nebraska Sociology
The ftrst full century of sociological scholarship at the University of Nebraska rests solidly on numerous contributions to the acknowledged pinnacle of academic work: single-author monographs published by scholarly presses. Collaborative works, including jointly-authored monographs and scholarly editorial projects, round out the separately published volumes in the continually growing library of Nebraska sociology. Several works are recognized cl…
Research by Bureaucracy
This paper explores the bureaucratized research activities (1929-1931) of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (NCLOE) from the perspective of Hattie Plum Williams' sociobiographical experience. Williams was a doctoral student of George E. Howard and earned her Ph.D. in 1915 -- the ftrst doctorate in sociology awarded by the University of Nebraska. That same year, she joined the Nebraska faculty and eventually became Chair of…
Sociology
An introduction to sociology. It incorporates discussion of recent developments in both social theory and empirical social research - developments to which Giddens has directly contributed
Creative Journals and Destructive Decisions
Becoming Mature
Presents an integrated theory of development and maturation focusing on the influence of childhood experience on adult women. The book draws on the theories of Mead, Habermas, and Schutz, and on narratives and group discussions to analyze case studies
The Gypsy Scholar
The Role and Nature of the Doctoral Dissertation
Doctoral Dissertations as Liminal Journeys of the Self
The sociology dissertation process is a liminal journey, a passage characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty, and crisis in which the student self is abandoned and a new professional self claims a world ofpower.authority, maturity, and responsibility.The theoretical perspectives ofvictor Turner, Arnold Van Gennep, and George H. Mead are extended to conceptualize the "liminal self who undertakes this di@xlt and problematic journey of transformation.…
Aspen
Archival Strategies and Techniques
Introduction Archival Sedimentation Structure, Control, and Technology Getting Started 'Targets' and 'Tool Kits' Orientation Interviews Confronting the 'Black Box' Problem Life in the Reading Room Strategies for Organizing Archival Data Methodological Complexities Publication, Citations, and Permissions Non-Archival Data Sources
Harriet Martineau
The young dissenter the inveterate educator the sociologist abroad controversial afflictions the historian and social scientist the journalist par excellence after the harvest a woman of principle
Archival Strategies and Techniques
Auguste Comte
Le Play
The Dress of Women
Sociology (35 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Social science (12 works) · Art (9 works) · Psychology (9 works)