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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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Shawn Chandler Bingham is assistant professor of sociology at Saint Leo University in Florida.

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Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination presents the trans-disciplinary breadth of Henry David Thoreau's work, explores the relation between self and society in constructing the common good, and highlights the interplay between humans and the natural environment. In this thought-provoking account, Dr. Bingham, illustrates Thoreau's particularly prescient outlook on social evolution. In retrospect, it is remarkable that this volume, or one like it, was not published some time ago. Looking at Thoreau as a sociological thinker makes perfect sense. . . . This is a book that should provoke self-reflection among sociologists as well as more general readers. Highly recommended. With C. Wright Mills and Peter Berger by his side, Bingham argues for a reconstruction of the socio-theoretical canon so as to include the posture and insights of the great humanist Henry David Thoreau. This formidable task is deftly discharged, and in Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination Bingham provides the basis for considerable discussion and debate.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780742560581
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 158
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 388 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0742560589
  • Publisher Date: 14 Dec 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Wilds of Society
  • Width: 163 mm

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