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Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination - 9780742560598

Un libro in lingua di Bingham Shawn Chandler edito da Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2007

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Bingham (sociology, Saint Leo U., Florida) provides the first full-length sociological examination of the ideas of Thoreau, concentrating on the relationship between the individual and society, social change, and the deconstruction of society's ideas about progress. Bingham examines the disciplinary disobedience of Thoreau's thought as well as of his own methodology, Thoreau's influences and his effects, and the central notions of social structures and their relation to the American individual, the evolutionary and revolutionary meanings of "progress," and the interrelated phenomena of social development and social change. He analyzes the methods and results of Thoreau's social inquiry and applies his findings to the possibility of taking Thoreau's thought as a model for "reimagining" sociology. As he analyzes the complexity and sophistication of Thoreau's sociological imagination, Bingham gives good reasons for readers to re-examine the boundaries between the social sciences and the humanities. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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