Civic engagement
Subtitle: social science and progressive-era reform in New York City
By: John Louis Recchiuti
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780812239577
Subjects: Social problems -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Social scientists in government -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Competing gospels: "Make way for science and for light!"; title: From noblesse oblige to social reform in the "New Philanthropy" of "Scientific Charity"; title: Social settlements as neighborhood democracy or benevolent paternalism?; title: "A science of municipal government" : "scientific training" or "agents of Wall Street"?; title: "To look after the nation's crop of children"; title: "Self-constituted leaders or 'teachersʾ whose principal aim is domination"? Social science, organized labor, and social insurance legislation; title: Social science and "the Negro problem": from "Nordic myth" to the NAACP and National Urban League; title: "Our ideas will become common currency": social science political engagement in the election of 1912 and its aftermath