Shawn Chandler Bingham

Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

The Wilds of Society

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461646198
• Artikelnr.: 39069458

Autorenporträt

Shawn Chandler Bingham is assistant professor of sociology at Saint Leo University in Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

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