The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880–1940

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List of figures
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List of maps
Notes on contributors
Preface
1. The social survey in historical perspective Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales and Kathryn Kish Sylar
2. The social survey in social perspective, 1830–1930 Eileen Janes Yeo
3. Charles Booth's survey of Life and Labour of the People in London 1889–1903 Kevin Bales
4. Hull-House Maps and Papers: social science as women's work in the 1890s Kathryn Kish Sylar
5. The place of social investigation, social theory and social work in the approach to late Victorian and Edwardian social problems: the case of Beatrice Webb and Helen Bosanquet Jane Lewis
6. W. E. B. Du Bois as a social investigator: The Philadelphia Negro 1899 Martin Bulmer
7. Concepts of poverty in the British social surveys from Charles Booth to Arthur Bowley E. P. Hennock
8. The part in relation to the whole: how to generalise? The prehistory of representative sampling Alain Desrosières
9. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Social Survey Movement: a sociological road not taken Steven R. Cohen
10. The world of the academic quantifiers: the Columbia University family and its connections Stephen P. Turner
11. The decline of The Social Survey Movement and the rise of American empirical sociology Martin Bulmer
12. The social survey in Germany before 1933 Irmela Gorges
13. Anglo-American contacts in the development of research methods before 1945 Jennifer Platt
14. The social survey in historical perspective: a governmental perspective Roger Davidson
15. The dangers of castle building - surveying the social survey Seth Koven
Index.

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