Format:
Online-Ressource (ix, 229 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
023020189X
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9780230201897
Content:
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.
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-223) and index
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Cover; Contents; Prologue: Victorian Social Science in a Twentieth-Century World; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction to Victorian Poverty Studies; 2 Two Royal Commissions; 3 Protestant Paradigms in Victorian Poverty Studies; 4 Political Economy and the New Poor Law; 5 From Political Economy to Social Science; 6 Ignoble Savages on Relief: Social Darwinism in Late Victorian Poverty Studies; 7 Science and Pseudoscience in Victorian and Edwardian Poverty Studies; 8 Three Case Studies in a priori Social Science; 9 Unanswered Questions, Unasked Questions, and an Experimental Counter-Hypothesis
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10 Why Critique the Victorian Social Science of Poverty?Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230201897
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hard and Unreal Advice : Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts
Language:
English
