1 Preface 2 Chronology 3 Chapter One: Disciplinary Disobedience 4 Chapter Two: The Seeds and Fruit of Thoreavian Though 5 Chapter Three: Social Structure and the American Individual 6 Chapter Four: "Progress," Social Development and Social Change 7 Chapter Five: Thoreau's Social Inquiry 8 Chapter Six: Thoreau as a Model for "Reimagining" Sociology 9 References
Shawn Chandler Bingham is assistant professor of sociology at Saint Leo University in Florida.
Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination presents the
trans-disciplinary breadth of Henry David Thoreau's work, explores
the relation between self and society in constructing the common
good, and highlights the interplay between humans and the natural
environment. In this thought-provoking account, Dr. Bingham,
illustrates Thoreau's particularly prescient outlook on social
evolution.
*Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire; coauthor of American
Catholics in Transition*
In retrospect, it is remarkable that this volume, or one like it,
was not published some time ago. Looking at Thoreau as a
sociological thinker makes perfect sense. . . . This is a book that
should provoke self-reflection among sociologists as well as more
general readers. Highly recommended.
*CHOICE, December 2009*
With C. Wright Mills and Peter Berger by his side, Bingham argues
for a reconstruction of the socio-theoretical canon so as to
include the posture and insights of the great humanist Henry David
Thoreau. This formidable task is deftly discharged, and in Thoreau
and the Sociological Imagination Bingham provides the basis for
considerable discussion and debate.
*Braulio Muñoz, Swarthmore College, and author of The Peruvian
Notebooks and Tensions in Social Theory*
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