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Author : Lester Frank Ward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Glimpses of the Cosmos written by Lester Frank Ward and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph O. Baker
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479867411
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book American Secularism written by Joseph O. Baker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rapidly growing number of Americans are embracing life outside the bounds of organized religion. Although America has long been viewed as a fervently Christian nation, survey data show that more and more Americans identify as "not religious." American Secularism documents how changes to American society have fueled these shifts in the (non)religious landscape and examines the diverse and dynamic world of secular Americans. Baker and Smith offer a framework for understanding nonreligious belief systems as worldviews in their own right, rather than merely as negations of religion. Drawing on multiple sources of empirical data, this volume explores how people make meaning outside of organized religion, outlines multiple expressions of secular identity, and connects these self-expressions to patterns of family formation, socialization, social class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Further, the authors demonstrate how shifts in secularisms reflect changes in the political meanings of religion in American culture. Ultimately, American Secularism offers a more comprehensive sociological understanding of worldviews beyond traditional religion. -- from back cover.
Author : Paul M. Rego
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739140949
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book American Ideal written by Paul M. Rego and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the political thought of Theodore Roosevelt, specifically his ceaseless desire and effort to reconcile America's individualistic tradition with the more collectivistic ideals of his Progressive brethren. Many scholars and lay-people alike cast Roosevelt as either 'conservative' or 'liberal,' but his political thought defies so simple an interpretation; it was more nuanced and had a larger purpose than mere ideology. A thorough study of Roosevelt's writings reveals his conviction that the concepts of personal autonomy and civic concern were not mutually exclusive. In fact, Roosevelt argued that it was because the principles of self-reliance and personal freedom were important that it was sometimes necessary for the entire community to use its collective power_and, in some cases, the institutions of the government_to enable individuals to do what they could not do alone. Moreover, while Roosevelt advocated and was responsible for a great expansion in the regulatory powers of the national government, he understood, in contrast to many other Progressive reformers, that inspirational rhetoric and positive example could be as good as institutional reform and the force of law in compelling individuals to support one another in a spirit of civic attachment. In his public writings, Roosevelt sought to shape the American mind in ways that he thought proper. Even his writings on nature, hunting, ranching, and military life were part of his political thought in that they were intended to teach Americans about the importance of balancing those individualistic values that are healthy and vital to a society (discipline, personal responsibility, and a strong work ethic) with such positive collectivistic values as an appreciation for mutual support and a concern for the good of the community.
Author : Cynthia J. Davis
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817350721
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries written by Cynthia J. Davis and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman's highly public and combative stances as a critic and social activist brought her into contact and conflict with many of the major thinkers and writers of the period. Gilman wrote on subjects as wide ranging as birth control, eugenics, race, women's rights and suffrage, psychology, Marxism, and literary aesthetics. Her many contributions to social, intellectual, and literary life at the turn of the 20th century raised the bar for future discourse, but at great personal and professional cost. -- From publisher's description.
Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199843708
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book A River Running West written by Donald Worster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambiguous humanity. In A River Running West, Donald Worster, one of our leading Western historians, tells the story of Powell's great adventures and describes his historical significance with compelling clarity and skill. Worster paints a vivid portrait of how this man emerged from the early nineteenth-century world of immigrants, fervent religion, and rough-and-tumble rural culture, and barely survived the Civil War battle at Shiloh. The heart of Worster's biography is Powell's epic journey down the Colorado in 1869, a tale of harrowing experiences, lethal accidents, and breathtaking discoveries. After years in the region collecting rocks and fossils and learning to speak the local Native American languages, Powell returned to Washington as an eloquent advocate for the West, one of America's first and most influential conservationists. But in the end, he fell victim to a clique of Western politicians who pushed for unfettered economic development, relegating the aging explorer to a quiet life of anthropological contemplation. John Wesley Powell embodied the energy, optimism, and westward impulse of the young United States. A River Running West is a gorgeously written, magisterial account of this great American explorer and environmental pioneer, a true story of undaunted courage in the American West.
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Total Pages : 1316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan L. Mizruchi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400822475
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Science of Sacrifice written by Susan L. Mizruchi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-04 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary investigation, Susan Mizruchi portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. This is a book about the fascination that sacrifice held for writers--principally Herman Melville, Henry James, and W.E.B. Du Bois--and also for those who articulated the main tenets of modern social theory, an inquiry that eventually spans historical events such as public lynchings and the political scapegoating of immigrants a century ago. The execution in Billy Budd Sailor, the death of Du Bois's first-born son in The Souls of Black Folk, Henry James's preoccupation with renunciation and scapegoating, and the self-denying working classes of Norris and Stein all illustrate repeated stagings of sacrificial rituals from a Biblical past. For Mizruchi, the peculiar persistence of this aesthetic construct becomes a guide to a rich theological and social-scientific tradition distinctive to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and including such influential works as Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, Frazer's Golden Bough, and Ross's Sin and Society. The major features of sacrifice--its original association with spiritual doubt, its function as a form of spiritual economics that sustained divisions between the fortunate and the bereft, and its role in fixing boundaries between aliens and kin--held strong symbolic value for writers struggling to reconcile faith with rationalism, and communal coherence with capitalist expansion. Mizruchi eloquently demonstrates how the conceptual power of sacrifice made it a key mediator of cultural change, from the decline of sympathy and the significance of "race" in an emerging multicultural society to the revival of maternal self-sacrifice.
Author : Jeremy J. Schmidt
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479853828
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Water written by Jeremy J. Schmidt and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual history of America's water management philosophy Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and the global economy. For many, this brazen water grab and the social inequalities it produces reflect the lack of a coherent philosophy connecting people to the planet. Challenging this view, Jeremy Schmidt shows how water was made a “resource” that linked geology, politics, and culture to American institutions. Understanding the global spread and evolution of this philosophy is now key to addressing inequalities that exist on a geological scale. Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity details the remarkable intellectual history of America’s water management philosophy. It shows how this philosophy shaped early twentieth-century conservation in the United States, influenced American international development programs, and ultimately shaped programs of global governance that today connect water resources to the Earth system. Schmidt demonstrates how the ways we think about water reflect specific public and societal values, and illuminates the process by which the American approach to water management came to dominate the global conversation about water. Debates over how human impacts on the planet are connected to a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene—tend to focus on either the social causes of environmental crises or scientific assessments of the Earth system. Schmidt shows how, when it comes to water, the two are one and the same. The very way we think about managing water resources validates putting ever more water to use for some human purposes at the expense of others.
Author : Robert Smith LaMotte
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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Supplement to Catalogue of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Plants of North America, 1919-37 written by Robert Smith LaMotte and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ira Woods Howerth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Social Sciences written by Ira Woods Howerth and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of Northern Colorado
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Northern Colorado and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book Research Studies of the State College of Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8- include: Proceedings of the Pacific Sociological Society, 11th Annual Meeting (Dec. 27-29, 1939)-
Author : Jeffrey Sklansky
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080786143X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Soul's Economy written by Jeffrey Sklansky and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing a seismic shift in American social thought, Jeffrey Sklansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism. For a century after Independence, the dominant American understanding of selfhood and society came from the tradition of political economy, which defined freedom and equality in terms of ownership of the means of self-employment. However, the gradual demise of the household economy rendered proprietary independence an increasingly embattled ideal. Large landowners and industrialists claimed the right to rule as a privilege of their growing monopoly over productive resources, while dispossessed farmers and workers charged that a propertyless populace was incompatible with true liberty and democracy. Amid the widening class divide, nineteenth-century social theorists devised a new science of American society that came to be called "social psychology." The change Sklansky charts begins among Romantic writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, continues through the polemics of political economists such as Henry George and William Graham Sumner, and culminates with the pioneers of modern American psychology and sociology such as William James and Charles Horton Cooley. Together, these writers reconceived freedom in terms of psychic self-expression instead of economic self-interest, and they redefined democracy in terms of cultural kinship rather than social compact.
Author : Edward C. Rafferty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742522172
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Apostle of Human Progress written by Edward C. Rafferty and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents the first full scale intellectual portrait of Ward.
Author : George Burr Richardson
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Total Pages : 668 pages
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Download or read book Geology and Mineral Resources of the Randolph Quadrangle, Utah-Wyoming written by George Burr Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books [annual]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1898- include a directory of publishers.
Author : Robert Bierstedt
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 148327330X
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book American Sociological Theory written by Robert Bierstedt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Sociological Theory: A Critical History discusses the history of American sociological theory by providing a selective and critical account of ten writers largely involved in the subject. Chapters 1 to 10 of this book are devoted to the contributions and investigations of ten acclaimed sociological theorists— William Graham Sumner, Lester Frank Ward, Charles Horton Cooley, Edward Alsworth Ross, Florian Znaniecki, Robert Morrison Maclver, Pitirim A. Sorokin, George A. Lundberg, Talcott Parsons, and Robert K. Merton. The sociological label, legacy of Spencer, normative taboo, American references, and the ""Holy Trinity"" (Marx, Durkheim, and Weber) are also elaborated in this text. This publication is a good reference for students and researchers conducting work on general sociological theory.
