Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandra J Peart (0000-0002-1411-7918, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm108 |
| OpenAlex | W4250940717 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In the nineteenth century, social scientists such as John Stuart Mill struggled with the problem of the individual in society: how to achieve the “improvement of mankind” (Robson 1968) when society consists of free and responsible individuals. As he speculated about how behavior is conditioned by culture, habit, and institutions, and new habits form in the context of institutional change, Mill stepped into the burgeoning field of “speculative politics” or what we know of today as sociology. Social scientists, who now sometimes neglect questions relating to the acquisition of tastes or “character,” may fail to appreciate how much of Mill's writing was designed to deal with problems of human development and interaction in the context of social change. Examples in what follows include the Irish land question, emancipation, the laboring poor, and women's rights
Archaeology · Character (mathematics · Context (archaeology · Emancipation · Environmental ethics · Field (mathematics · Habit · Irish · Mill · Neglect · Political science · Politics · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |