La societat a Amèrica, volum 1 (de 2)
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- anglès
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- APAHarriet Martineau. (n.d.). Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) [La societat a Amèrica, volum 1 (de 2)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/harriet-martineau/society-in-america-volume-1-of-2
- MLAHarriet Martineau. Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) [La societat a Amèrica, volum 1 (de 2)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/harriet-martineau/society-in-america-volume-1-of-2.
- ChicagoHarriet Martineau. Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) [La societat a Amèrica, volum 1 (de 2)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/harriet-martineau/society-in-america-volume-1-of-2.
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De què tracta
El primer volum de l'estudi que Harriet Martineau va fer dels Estats Units el 1837, contrastant el que el pais deia de si mateix amb el que ella hi va veure.
Context i història
Martineau va viatjar pels Estats Units entre el 1834 i el 1836 i va publicar aixo el 1837. El que el fa notable no es el relat de viatge sino el metode: va anar amb un criteri declarat per endavant —comparar el que el pais deia de si mateix, als seus documents fundacionals, amb el que hi va veure— i amb regles sobre com observar, que va publicar a part. Per aixo se la considera una de les fundadores de la sociologia, i sovint no consta com a tal. La seva conclusio es dura: la republica que es proclama fundada en la igualtat te esclavitud i te les dones sense drets, i tots dos fets son de la mateixa naturalesa. Va escriure-ho quan aixo li podia costar la seguretat als estats del sud, i li'n va costar. Era sorda des de jove i es va guanyar la vida escrivint tota la seva vida adulta.
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elastic form, must be given to every institution. "The majority are in the right." Such is the theory. Few individuals of this majority can act for longer than two-score years and ten; few for so long. No one can suppose that his successor will think or feel as he does, however strict may be the regard of each to the fundamental principles which are to regulate his citizenship. It is absolutely necessary, to secure permanence to the recognition of those principles, that there should be liberty to change the form which contains them. Else, in the endless variety of human views and interests, there is danger lest men, being prohibited from producing a correspondence between the principles they recognise, and the forms they desire, should, because interdicted from outward change, gradually alter the spirit of their government. In such a case, men would be some time in discovering that the fair body of their constitution has become possessed, while they had supposed her inspired: and, to pass over the mischiefs which might happen during the period of her possession, the work of exorcism would be difficult and perilous. FOOTNOTE: [1] Declaration of Independence. CHAPTER I. PARTIES. "For these are the men that, when they have played their parts, and had their exits, must step out, and give the moral of their scenes, and deliver unto posterity an inventory of their virtues and vices." _Sir Thomas Browne._ The first gentleman who greeted me on my arrival in the United States, a few minutes after I had landed, informed me without delay, that I had arrived at an unhappy crisis; that the institutions of the country would be in ruins before my return to England; that the levelling spirit was desolating society; and that the United States were on the verge of a military despotism.…