How to Observe: Morals and Manners
How to Observe: Morals and Manners, published in 1838, is Harriet Martineau's guide for travelers who want to understand a foreign society rather than merely judge it. She first sets out the requirements of a good observer: philosophical principles, moral qualities such as sympathy and freedom from prejudice, and practical methods. She then lists what to study: religion, general moral notions, domestic life, the idea of liberty, progress, and the conversation of the people, arguing that institutions and records reveal more than the impressions of a few dinners. Written after her travels in the United States, it is often counted among the first treatises on the method of the social sciences. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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