Title: Who killed civil society? : the rise of big government and decline of bourgeois norms /
Authors: Husock, Howard
Year: 2019
Subjects: Social norms United States.; Social service United States; Civil society United States; Civil society; Social norms; Social policy; Social service; United States Social policy; United States
Contents: Introduction: how civil society saved my father -- Charles Loring Brace: "To avert rather than cure" -- Jane Addams: from norms to reform -- Mary Richmond: from "scientific charity" to social work -- Grace Abbott from Nebraska: services rather than norms -- Wilbur Cohen and the scaling of the social service state -- Geoffrey Canada's revival of "middle-class values" -- Conclusion: reflections on social norms.