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The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about t...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor. '...a bold and timely work of cultural history...this tightly-structured study makes for stimulating and suggestive reading...in terms of a combative and thought-provoking contribution to current welfare debate, I suggest that this book merits a much wider audience.' - Victoria Le Fevre, Reviews in History. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2008. |
| Carrier Form: | 240 p. |
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9780230201897 9780230594050 : 0230594050 : |
| CLC: | F156.16-09 |
| Contents: | PROLOGUE Victorian Social Science in a Twentieth-Century World CHAPTER ONE Introduction to Victorian Poverty Studies CHAPTER TWO Two Royal Commissions on the Poor Law CHAPTER THREE Protestant Paradigms in Victorian Poverty Studies CHAPTER FOUR Political Economy and the New Poor Law CHAPTER FIVE From Political Economy to Social Science CHAPTER SIX Ignoble Savages on Relief: Social Darwinism in Late Victorian Poverty Studies CHAPTER SEVEN Science and Pseudoscience in Victorian and Edwardian Poverty Studies CHAPTER EIGHT Three Case Studies in a priori Social Science CHAPTER NINE Unanswered Questions, Unasked Questions, and an Experimental Counter-Hypothesis CHAPTER TEN Why Critique the Victorian Social Science of Poverty? Bibliography Index. |