Science, reform, and politics in Victorian Britain : the Social Science Association, 1857-1886 / Lawrence Goldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Lawrence, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain)--History.

National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain).

Social change--Great Britain.

Social change.

Social change--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Social values--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Social values.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 430 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Science, Reform, & Politics in Victorian Britain

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This book is a study of the relationships between social thought, social policy and politics in Victorian Britain. Goldman focuses on the activity of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, known as the Social Science Association. For three decades this served as a forum for the discussion of Victorian social questions and as an influential adviser to governments, and its history discloses how social policy was made in these years. The Association, which attracted many powerful contributors, including politicians, civil servants, intellectuals and reformers, had influence over policy and legislation on matters as diverse as public health and women's legal and social emancipation. The SSA reveals the complex roots of social science and sociology buried in the non-academic milieu of nineteenth-century reform. And its influence in the United States and Europe allows for a comparative approach to political and intellectual development in this period.

Contents:

Introduction: The contexts of the Social Science Association

Part I. Politics: 1. The Origins of the Social Science Association ; 2. The Social Science Association and the structure of mid-Victorian politics ; 3. Organising the Social Science Association

Part II. Reform: 4. Liberalism divided and feminism divided ; 5. Transportation, reformation and convict discipline ; 6. Victorian socio-medical liberalism ; 7. Labour and capital ; 8. The Social Science Association and middle-class education ; 9. The Social Science Association and the making of social policy

Part III. Science: 10. Social science in domestic context ; 11. Social science international comparative context

Part IV. The Decline of the Social Science Association: 12. Liberal division, specialisation and the 'fragmentation of the common context' in late-Victorian Britain

Conclusion: the Social Science Association and social knowledge

Appendices.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-419) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11148-X

1-280-41652-1

0-511-17678-3

0-511-03934-4

0-511-15767-3

0-511-30462-5

0-511-49054-2

0-511-05235-9

OCLC:

70740362