Martineau, Harriet (1802–1876)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7079377 |
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| Authors | Cynthia Siemsen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm034 |
| OpenAlex | W4247063009 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Harriet Martineau's 25 volumes of short novels illustrating the principles of political economy outsold the works of her contemporary Charles Dickens. Her travel chronicles of nineteenth‐century American society and its cultural beliefs are comparative historical accounts that have been likened to Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835). She authored sociology's first systematic treatment of methodology six decades before Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method (1895), and translated and condensed Auguste Comte's Cours de philosophie positive (1830), introducing his attempt to establish a sociological science to the English‐speaking world. However, the story of sociology's emergence has been a history of men and their contributions to the formation of the discipline. Although Martineau achieved high intellectual success in applying scientific techniques borrowed from the natural sciences to theories of social observation, that status was limited to her lifetime alone
| Highly cited | No |
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