mothers, social science, and the Victorian poverty experts /
First Statement of Responsibility
Kathleen Callanan Martin.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, N.Y. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 229 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-223) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Prologue: Victorian social science in a twentieth-century world -- Introduction to Victorian poverty studies -- Two royal commissions -- Protestant paradigms in Victorian poverty studies -- Political economy and the new poor law -- From political economy to social science -- Ignoble savages on relief: social Darwinism in late Victorian poverty studies -- Science and pseudoscience in Victorian and Edwardian poverty studies -- Three case studies in a priori social science -- Unanswered questions, unasked questions, and an experimental counter-hypothesis -- Why critique the Victorian social science of poverty?
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This is 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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Poor-- Government policy-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Poverty-- Research-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.