The New Harmony Movement (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Lockwood, George B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144005696X ISBN 13 : 9781440056963

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover the nineteenth-century experiment at New Harmony, a bold social project that reshaped ideas about education, marriage law, and women's rights.

This account surveys a unique community dedicated to reform and its lasting influence on law, schooling, and gender equality. It highlights the key figures who fought for property rights for married women, while detailing the educational experiments and social experiments that accompanied the movement.

The book traces how advocates, including Robert Dale Owen, pressed for legal changes and how opponents framed those proposals. It presents the outcomes, the controversies, and the enduring questions raised by a community that sought to redefine family, property, and civic life.

• Understand how the New Harmony experiment influenced property rights and marital law.
• Follow the efforts of reformers who argued for women’s independent rights and education.
• Explore the intertwining histories of education reform and social experimentation.
• Meet the people and moments that shaped a pivotal chapter in American reform movements.

Ideal for readers interested in social reform, education history, and nineteenth-century American communities.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

What is called in this book the New Harmony Movement forms a noteworthy practical lesson in sociology in that part of sociology which treats of the isms of that important science. In the institutions of civilization we count four cardinal types the family, civil society with its division of labor, the state, the church. The two extremes the family and the church give us, on the one hand, the first departure from the individual with his narrow experience, and on the other the arrival at the highest reenforcement by the race or the social whole. The family, although nearest to the unassisted individual, does not for that very reason permit much development of individuality. I ts principle is obedience to elders, and especially to parents and naturally constituted guides. A high degree of selfactivity and independence is not found possible in this institution, because blind obedience is irrational. As compared with the family, civil society with its division of labor gives greater opportunity for the development of individuality. The individual through his vocation contributes something to supply the wants of his community. He makes some article or performs some function that is useful to the social whole, and thereby lays his community under obligation to him and gets recognition for his service. He has proved himself essential to the society in which he lives, and society hastens to set before him, for the supply of his own particular needs, the aggregate production of all the units of society.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 144005696X
• ISBN 13: 9781440056963
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 470
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