Social science for what? : philanthropy and the social question in a world turned rightside up / Alice O'Connor.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Connor, Alice, 1958-
Corporate Author: Russell Sage Foundation
Language:English
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
Social problems > Research > United States > History.
Endowments > United States.
Social sciences > United States.
United States > Social policy.
Liberalism > United States.
Conservatism > United States.
Russell Sage Foundation.
Physical Description:xiii, 178 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Engaging the social question at the early Russell Sage Foundation
  • Social science, the social question, and the value-neutrality debate
  • Unsettling the social question: from consensus to counterrevolution in the postwar politics of knowledge
  • The poor law, the social question, and the new politics of reform
  • The counterintelligentsia, the social question, and the new gospel of wealth
  • Conclusion.