Hard and Unreal Advice [[electronic resource] ] : Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts / / by K. Martin
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| Autore: |
Martin K
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| Titolo: |
Hard and Unreal Advice [[electronic resource] ] : Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts / / by K. Martin
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2008. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.50941/09034 |
| 362.5094109034 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Great Britain—History |
| Welfare state | |
| Social history | |
| Civilization—History | |
| Social service | |
| History, Modern | |
| History of Britain and Ireland | |
| Politics of the Welfare State | |
| Social History | |
| Cultural History | |
| Social Care | |
| Modern History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-223) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| 10 Why Critique the Victorian Social Science of Poverty?Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hard and Unreal Advice |
| ISBN: | 1-281-97638-5 |
| 9786611976385 | |
| 0-230-59405-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811386503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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