Johan Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887) was a Swiss anthropologist and sociologist
whose 1861 book, Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical
Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World is best known for his radical claims that
matriarchy preceded patriarchy, and that matriarchy is the source of human society,
religion, and morality. Scholars have acknowledged Bachofen's influence on a long list
of writers, including but not limited to: Lewis Henry Morgan, Friedrich Nietzsche,
Thomas Mann, Friederich Engels, Karl Marx, Erich Fromm, Joseph Campbelll, Emile
Durkheim, Carl Gustav Jung, Thorstein Veblen, Ferdinand Tonnies, and Pitirim Sorokin.
The focus of my thesis is to bring attention to Bachofen's influence on the early
sociologists (Engels, Durkheim, Tonnies, Sorokin), and more importantly, on the later
sociologists and other social scientists whom these early sociologists in turn influenced,
including: David Riesman, Talcott Parsons, and Jean Baudrillard.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/85971 |
| Date | 10 October 2008 |
| Creators | Romero, Rachel |
| Contributors | MESTROVIC, STJEPAN |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Thesis, text |
| Format | electronic, born digital |
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