Civic engagement : social science and progressive-era reform in New York City / John Louis Recchiuti.

Author/creator Recchiuti, John Louis
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.
Description311 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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.

Contents Competing gospels: "Make way for science and for light!" -- From noblesse oblige to social reform in the "New Philanthropy" of "Scientific Charity" -- Social settlements as neighborhood democracy or benevolent paternalism? -- "A science of municipal government" : "scientific training" or "agents of Wall Street"? -- "To look after the nation's crop of children" -- "Self-constituted leaders or 'teachersʼ whose principal aim is domination"? Social science, organized labor, and social insurance legislation -- Social science and "the Negro problem": from "Nordic myth" to the NAACP and National Urban League -- "Our ideas will become common currency": social science political engagement in the election of 1912 and its aftermath.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-295) and index.
LCCN 2006042156
ISBN0812239571
ISBN9780812239577