1st Edition
Order and Control in American Socio-Economic Thought Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform
By Charles McCann
Copyright 2012
320 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
304 Pages
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Routledge
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The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American social scientists, drawing on their experiences with the German social welfare system, became increasingly interested not merely in identifying problems, but in prescribing means... Read more
Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. An Introduction to Progressivism 2. Lester Frank Ward: Progenitor of American Progressivism 3. Degeneracy and Directed Order: Charles Horton Cooley and Progressive-Era Sociology 4. Edward Alsworth Ross: The Need for Social Control 5. Richard Theodore Ely: Christian Socialist and Prophet of Paternalism 6. Henry Carter Adams and the Regulatory State 7. Prolegomenon to the Social Philosophy of John Dewey. Conclusion
Biography
Charles R. McCann, Jr., is a research associate in the Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
