What we can get towards research: “Manners Maketh the City…”
- Urban Sociability: (define here)
- Moral Relativism: (ditto!)
- Social differentiation:(ditto, ditto!)
- temperance society: ...
- the “urban left”: ...personally, seems to be a generalization that those in urban spaces tend to be more liberal.
Questions from reading (again, we will all come up with our own!):
- What is Montgomery’s definition of a “good person” and “good intentions”?
- Is American society afraid of punishment for crimes? Is there a segment of American culture where idea of punishment is seen as wrong? (from last page)
- Is language the culprit for the failure of a culture’s interaction? )(from page 2)
-Do manners really reflect a society’s worldview, and how can this be studied? Is there a correlation between polite language and a thriving society?
- Does a society mark civility by its peoples’ manners?
- Is lewdness connected to time of day? A correlation between behavior and time of day?
- What can we learn from study of historical periods of politeness being regulated?
Evaluation of Author’s main idea:
- Interesting reflections on social behavior and business, but much to be defined and explored more …
- Imbalance between studies and firsthand observation and expanded definitions
- Don’t feel he really clarifies or develops his own ideas
Word Bank of Search Terms:
- create from annotations done on reading, and from questions from reading…
Other Routes for Research: Cited Authors/ Texts?
- Who’s theories are used by author?
- How are theories explained, and then used?
-What outside texts are explicitly referred to?
- Record from both In-text citation, & from Endnotes/ References section (index in a larger text like a book, etc.)
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