Hard and Unreal Advice Mothers, Social

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.

KATHLEEN C. MARTIN is Professor in the College of General Studies at Boston University. Drawing on her background in both sociology and history, she examines in her research the interplay of culture, theory and methodology in social science. She received her MA in Sociology from Ohio State University and her PhD in Comparative History from Brandeis University.

Prologue: Victorian Social Science in a Twentieth-Century World	p. vi
Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction to Victorian Poverty Studies	p. 1
Two Royal Commissions	p. 10
Protestant Paradigms in Victorian Poverty Studies	p. 21
Temptation, transcendence, denial: religious threads in late nineteenth-century poverty studies	p. 30
Political Economy and the New Poor Law	p. 48
From Political Economy to Social Science	p. 63
Ignoble Savages on Relief: Social Darwinism in Late Victorian Poverty Studies	p. 82
Science and Pseudoscience in Victorian and Edwardian Poverty Studies	p. 93
Three Case Studies in a priori Social Science	p. 134
Uneconomic woman goes shopping: reckless improvidence in East London	p. 134
Resting in the daytime: negligent slum mothers in the Slough of Despond	p. 140
Economic woman liquidates an asset: the infant life insurance scares	p. 152
Unanswered Questions, Unasked Questions, and an Experimental Counter-Hypothesis	p. 159
Why Critique the Victorian Social Science of Poverty?	p. 174
Notes	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 212
Index	p. 224
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Hard and Unreal Advice Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts

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