April 17, 2024
CDV: SOCIOLOGIST and FEMINIST writer HARRIET MARTINEAU
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CDV: SOCIOLOGIST and FEMINIST writer HARRIET MARTINEAU A carte-de-visite portrait of the philospher and writer Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), regarded by many as the first female sociologist.Harriet Martineau was born and attended school in England. Brought up a Unitarian, she wrote fiction and gained a wide readership for her popularization of history, economics, and the positivist philosophy of Frenchman Auguste Comte (1798-1857). Her books include The History of England during the Thirty Years Peace, 1816-46 (1849). She wrote more than 50 books and is significant to sociologists today because of her argument that ‘When one studies a society, one must focus on all its aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions.’ She also believed an analysis of a society should be required to have an understanding of women's lives. Harriet changed sociological opinions on issues such as marriage, children, domestic and religious life, and race relations. She believed that sociologists should not just simply observe, they should do things to benefit society. She also became an enthusiastic advocate of mesmerism.Among her wide circle of acquaintances she numbered Henry Hallam, Harriet Taylor, Alexander Maconochie, Henry Hart Milman, Thomas Malthus, Monckton Milnes, Sydney Smith, John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, Edward George
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