"How to Observe: Morals and Manners" by Harriet Martineau is a detailed handbook from the 1800s, offering advice to travelers and learners on how to accurately study different societies, their ethics, and social customs. Martineau wants to teach people how to truly understand why people act the way they do in different cultures, without making unfair judgments based on their own backgrounds. The book starts by saying that good observation takes serious mental work, like doing science. Martineau stresses that people should know what they want to learn and understand the moral ideas behind a society before they even start watching. She cautions against quickly judging a culture based on just a few experiences and pushes for a much more thoughtful way of learning about different cultures and their social workings.
How to Observe: Morals and Manners
By Harriet Martineau
Unlock the secrets to understanding diverse cultures with a guide that teaches you how to observe the hidden morals and manners of societies around the world.
Summary
About the AuthorHarriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation."
Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation."
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