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    her master in ways other than a servant. There were two narratives that tell of individual struggles of mulatto women bound under the control of another human being. Although the women in William Wells Brown Clotel; or‚ The President’s Daughter and Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl undergo drastically

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    The humiliating nature of enslavement‚ sexual savage exploitation‚ and degradation in autobiographical narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs In the age of Romanticism‚ slavery and the slave trade provoked sharp criticism and controversy and played a very significant role in shaping public opinion and causing moral opposition to injustice and tyranny. Since Columbus’s journey opened the doors of the Atlantic passage to African Slave Trade‚ slavery became man’s greatest inhumanity

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    She is a writer and philosopher‚ renowned in her day as a controversial journalist‚ political economist‚ abolitionist and life-long feminist. In 1852‚ Martineau translated the works of Auguste Comte. Through this process‚ she both clarified his work and made it accessible to English readers. Martineau also introduced a feminist sociological perspectives. She wrote about overlooked issues such as marriage‚ children‚ domestic and religious life‚ and race relations. All those

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    British rule in India‚. Iowa City: The University‚ 1916. [ 2 ]. MartineauHarriet. British rule in India; a historical sketch.. London: Smith‚ Elder and Co.; [etc.]‚ 1857. Bose‚ Sudhindra [ 3 ]. MartineauHarriet. British rule in India; a historical sketch.. London: Smith‚ Elder and Co.; [etc.]‚ 1857. [ 4 ]. MartineauHarriet. British rule in India; a historical sketch.. London: Smith‚ Elder and Co.; [etc.]‚ 1857. [ 5 ]. MartineauHarriet. British rule in India; a historical sketch.. London: Smith

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    SOCIOLOGY 1) Industrial Technology 2) The Growth of Cities 3) Political Change Science and Sociology • Auguste Comte – The “Father of Sociology” Stages – 1) Theological 2) Metaphysical 3) Scientific Positivism Marginal Voices • Harriet Martineau • Jane Addams • W.E.B. DuBois SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY • I. StructuralFunctional Paradigm – A. Famous Theorists • 1. Auguste Comte • 2. Emile Durkheim • 3. Herbert Spencer • 4. Robert Merton B. Major Issues • 1. Social

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    govern human behavior scientific stage 12. Who was the first to translate Comte into English? Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) 13. works of Harriet Martineau * Theory and Practice of Society in America (1837) * How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838) 14. Who is considered one of the earliest feminist social scientists writing in the English language? Harriet Martineau 15. founding fathers of the sociological

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    politically. Webster in his reply to the veto says that Jackson if trying to turn the rich against the poor. Because of the veto many of the common people believed that he was also saving democracy by keeping the power of the rich at bay. When Harriet Martineau visited the United States she was able to witness the fairness of voting on candidates and that " the people were the judges." Universal Manhood Suffrage was also an import factor in the political democracy of the United States. By giving all

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    observers viewed that in America everybody is free and independent‚ as taken from the opinion of Harriet Martineau‚ a British author (Document D). On the other hand‚ the outlook from inside the country was opposed according to New York City businessman and Whig politician‚ Philip Hone. Hone described two riots he witnessed that had broken out between minorities in the country (Document E). Martineau viewed America in the big picture; she saw the country as an outsider‚ a tourist‚ seeing the sights

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    some form of slave labor. (Phil Bartle‚ 1967‚ 1987‚ 2007) Harriet Martineau‚ the first female sociologist‚ was an abolitionist for slavery. She wrote a book called “Society in America”. She was one of the first people to identify that racism becomes one ideology of slavery. In 1835‚ while attending an anti-slavery meeting in Boston as an observer‚ Martineau was invited to make a statement in favor of abolition. In her statement‚ Martineau denounced slavery as "inconsistent with the law of God." Those

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    Study Guide for Exam 1 Intro to Sociology Bring # 2 Pencil Understanding Sociology Readings: Chapter 1 Article: New York: Plan to Close Prisons Stirs Anxiety in Towns That Depend on Them Sociological Imagination (C. Wright Mills)- An awareness of the relationship between an individual & the wider society; key element to sociological imagination is the ability to view one’s society as an outsider would. **Society influences: culture‚ gender identity‚ religion & social class. August

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