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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2002.]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 430 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511039344
  • 9780511039348
  • 052133053X
  • 9780521330534
  • 0511052359
  • 9780511052354
  • 9780511490545
  • 0511490542
  • 1280416521
  • 9781280416521
  • 9786610416523
  • 6610416524
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HN384
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Contents:
Introduction: The contexts of the Social Science Association -- Politics -- The Origins of the Social Science Association ; The Social Science Association and the structure of mid-Victorian politics ; Organising the Social Science Association -- Reform -- Liberalism divided and feminism divided ; Transportation, reformation and convict discipline ; Victorian socio-medical liberalism ; Labour and capital ; The Social Science Association and middle-class education ; The Social Science Association and the making of social policy -- Science -- Social science in domestic context ; Social science international comparative context -- The Decline of the Social Science Association -- Liberal division, specialisation and the 'fragmentation of the common context' in late-Victorian Britain -- Conclusion: the Social Science Association and social knowledge -- Appendices.
Summary: Goldman examines the origins of social policies in the mid-Victorian period. He focuses on the Social Science Association, famous for its influence over a wide range of social policies. Goldman sets the SSA in the context of its age, and explains its relevance to politics, social life and intellectual development.
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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction HN384 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocm56408588\

Includes bibliographies and index.

Goldman examines the origins of social policies in the mid-Victorian period. He focuses on the Social Science Association, famous for its influence over a wide range of social policies. Goldman sets the SSA in the context of its age, and explains its relevance to politics, social life and intellectual development.

Introduction: The contexts of the Social Science Association -- Politics -- The Origins of the Social Science Association ; The Social Science Association and the structure of mid-Victorian politics ; Organising the Social Science Association -- Reform -- Liberalism divided and feminism divided ; Transportation, reformation and convict discipline ; Victorian socio-medical liberalism ; Labour and capital ; The Social Science Association and middle-class education ; The Social Science Association and the making of social policy -- Science -- Social science in domestic context ; Social science international comparative context -- The Decline of the Social Science Association -- Liberal division, specialisation and the 'fragmentation of the common context' in late-Victorian Britain -- Conclusion: the Social Science Association and social knowledge -- Appendices.

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