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A 3 page essay on Harriet Martineau (an English writer), who the author of this essay believes deserves to be remembered in the same light as Karl Marx and other great social theorists for her insightful contributions. Martineau's critique of Charlotte Bronte is cited as are several other key examples. Bibliography cites 2 sources.
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asserts that Martineau was a pioneer in studying human societies systematically and scientifically; a practice that would come to be called sociology. Typically, the role of founder in this
field is usually described as been associated only with the works of the male theorists Comte, Spencer, and Marx. But it is the books assertion that Martineau belongs in the
same class as that historic trio. Several examples of comparative thinking are given to illustrate Martineaus relation to each of the three aforementioned
theorists. For example, she is known to have written about the need for general public education in the political economy ten years before Comte wrote "The Positive Philosophy"; for
which his similar ideas made him a well-reputed individual. But even after that work was published, Martineau edited it extensively with such apparent contextual validity that Comte substituted it
! The text makes the point that without such an accomplishment accredited to her name, Martineau would not have at all been regarded as the "founding mother" of sociology--which she
truly is indeed... To Martineau, sociologys subject matter was social life in society; its patterns, causes, consequences, and problems. The text points out that
in this way she is like Comte and Spencer in choosing society but unlike them in her addition of feminist ideals such as the feminist principle of social fairness to
woman and other oppressed groups. She also differs from these two male counterparts in that she reportedly seems to have been less concerned with building a model of an
"ideal-typical, ahistorical, generalized social system" and more so with examining actual "social life--" the patterns of human relationships and activities in historically developed societies. Martineaus uniqueness lie in
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