K. Martin

Gebundenes Buch

Hard and Unreal Advice

Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts

Beschreibung

The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor.

Autor

KATHLEEN CALLANAN MARTIN is Professor in the College of General Studies at Boston University, USA. Drawing on her background in both sociology and history, she examines in her research the interplay of culture, theory and methodology in social science.  She received her MA in Sociology from Ohio State University and her PhD in Comparative History from Brandeis University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-20189-7
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 229
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 139mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780230201897
• ISBN-10: 023020189X
• Artikelnr.: 23301216