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Robert K Merton & Contemp
This volume offers scholars of sociology and allied areas the fruits of an international conference on the contributions of the eminent Robert K. Merton. The assessment, as good in content as well as in participants, took place in Amalfi. Italy, with the participation of Merton himself and under the auspices of the Italian Sociology Association.
Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History
Volume IV comprises two sections dealing, respectively, with the development of pet culture and its evolution as a cultural institution over the course of the long nineteenth century, and with the variegated presence of domesticated (and feralised) animals in U.S. cities. Closely tied to the antebellum rise of the American middle-class family and the sentimentalisation of (certain) human-animal relationships, by the turn of the twentieth century American petkeeping had become the target of an expansive industry that offered everything from gourmet pet foods and fashionable accessories to healthcare and boarding services. This proliferation of companion animals also had a significant impact on urban life. Besides walking, sitting, or lying on sidewalks and being sold in city stores and on street corners, in cases of abandonment the animals swelled an ever-increasing population of canine and feline strays. Together with horses, pigs, cows, chicken, and urban wildlife, these animals fundamentally shaped the routines, rhythms, and general experience of nineteenth-century urban life for human city dwellers.
The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism
While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood. This highlights the need for a discursive and up-to-date reference work analyzing this approach’s classic arguments and assumptions in the light of contemporary issues in sociology, economics and philosophy. This two-volume handbook presents the first comprehensive overview of methodological individualism. Chapters discuss historical and contemporary debates surrounding this central approach within the social sciences, as well as cutting edge developments related to the individualist tradition with philosophical and scientific implications. Bringing together multiple contributions from the world’s leading experts on this important tradition of theorizing, this collective endeavor provides teachers, researchers and students in sociology, economics, and philosophy with a reliable and critical understanding of the founding principles, key thinkers and intellectual development of MI since the late 19th century.
Descendants of John Thompson--1994
John Thompson (1780-1855), was a son of William Thompson and Jane Mitchell of Thompsontown, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania. He was called "Goshen John". He married Abigail North (1783-1852). Author's lineage comes from another son of William Thompson and Jane Mitchell, William Thompson, Jr. (1785-1834), who was born in Pfoutz's Valley, Pa., and died in Thompsontown. He was married to Charlotte Chambers Patterson (1794-1863) in 1816. Descendants of John Thomson (d. 1779), the pioneer and patriot, and the founder of the Thompson family in Juniata County, Pa., who with his brother, James, originally came from Scotland to County Antrim, Ireland, and about 1735 to Cross Roads, Chester Co., Pa. They later lived in Hanover Twp., Harrisburg and Thompsontown, Pa. He was married three times: 1. Miss Greenlee, daughter of James Greenlee of Hanover Twp. 2. Miss Slocum; and 3. Sarah Patterson, a daughter of James Patterson. He had fourteen children.
