Author: Charles Richmond HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An Introduction to the Study of the Dependent, Defective and Delinquent Classes
Author: Charles Richmond HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An Introduction to the Study of the Dependent, Defective and Delinquent Classes
Author: Charles Richmond HendersonPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230283357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. Suggestions to the Student in the Use of the Text. i. Make an abstract of each section of the chapter, and be prepared to state every point in your own language. 2. Read the works and articles cited, so far as they are accessible, and note down: (a) any additional facts, arguments, or recommendations; (b) any contradictions of the text. Weigh the different views, form your own judgment, and write it out. 3. Visit institutions of charity and correction in your own community, and make careful drawings, plans, and descriptions. Use the "schedule" printed herewith (p. 351). 4. Cut out of newspapers, and keep together in envelopes, drawers, scrap books, or other devices, all illustrative items. Seek to add to your direct and personal observation and experience by all available means. Abbreviations. -- Some of the books to which reference is most frequently made are indicated by the following abbreviations: -- N.C.C. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction. N. P. A. Proceedings of the National Prison Association. I. C. C. Proceedings of the International Congress of Charities, Correction, and Philanthropy, Chicago, 1893; published by Johns Hopkins University. A. Jour. Soc. American Journal of Sociology. Char. Rev. Charities Review. The list of books, pamphlets, and articles is intended to be select rather than exhaustive; and select in relation to the needs of beginners, and of college and university students who wish to push their studies beyond the materials of the text. The bibliography is not intended for specialists. Any person who has mastered the text and the literature cited will be able to help himself. German, French, and Italian works are occasionally named, since familiarity with the European...
The Chautauquan
Author: Fixing the Poor
Author: Molly Ladd-TaylorPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423731
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
How state welfare politics—not just concerns with "race improvement"—led to eugenic sterilization practices. Honorable Mention, 2018 Outstanding Book Award, The Disability History AssociationShortlist, 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run eugenic sterilization programs. She focuses on one such program in Minnesota, where surgical sterilization was legally voluntary and administered within a progressive child welfare system. Tracing Minnesota's eugenics program from its conceptual origins in the 1880s to its official end in the 1970s, Ladd-Taylor argues that state sterilization policies reflected a wider variety of worldviews and political agendas than previously understood. She describes how, after 1920, people endorsed sterilization and its alternative, institutionalization, as the best way to aid dependent children without helping the "undeserving" poor. She also sheds new light on how the policy gained acceptance and why coerced sterilizations persisted long after eugenics lost its prestige. In Ladd-Taylor's provocative study, eugenic sterilization appears less like a deliberate effort to improve the gene pool than a complicated but sadly familiar tale of troubled families, fiscal and administrative politics, and deep-felt cultural attitudes about disability, dependency, sexuality, and gender. Drawing on institutional and medical records, court cases, newspapers, and professional journals, Ladd-Taylor reconstructs the tragic stories of the welfare-dependent, sexually delinquent, and disabled people who were labeled "feebleminded" and targeted for sterilization. She chronicles the routine operation of Minnesota's three-step policy of eugenic commitment, institutionalization, and sterilization in the 1920s and 1930s and shows how surgery became the "price of freedom" from a state institution. Combining innovative political analysis with a compelling social history of those caught up in Minnesota's welfare system, Fixing the Poor is a powerful reinterpretation of eugenic sterilization.
Almost Worthy
Author: Brent RuswickPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253006341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Introduction: Big Moll and the science of scientific charity -- "Armies of vice": evolution, heredity, and the pauper menace -- Friendly visitors or scientific investigators? Befriending and measuring the poor -- Opposition, depression, and the rejection of pauperism -- "I see no terrible army": environmental reform and radicalism in the scientific charity movement -- The potentially normal poor: professional social work, psychology, and the end of scientific charity.
The Reportage of Urban Culture
Author: Rolf LindnerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521440523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The current fascination with urban life has encouraged a growing interest in the 'Chicago School' of sociology by students of sociological history. It is generally accepted that the field research practised by the Chicago sociologists during the 1920s - the 'Golden Age of Chicago sociology' - used methods borrowed from anthropology. However, Rolf Lindner also argues convincingly that the orientation of urban research advocated by Robert Park, the key figure in the Chicago School and himself a former reporter, is ultimately indebted to the tradition of urban reportage. The Reportage of Urban Culture goes beyond a thorough reconstruction of the relationship between journalism and sociology. It shows how the figure of the city reporter at the turn of the century represents a new way of looking at life, and reflects a transformation in American culture, from rejecting variety to embracing it.
The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology
Author: Jayne MooneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000751198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
To confront the challenges criminologists face today and to satisfactorily critique the theories on which criminology is founded, we need to learn from the past. To do this we must give context to both theorist and theory. Written from a critical perspective, this book brings criminological theory to life. It presents the core theories of criminology as historical and cultural products and theorists as producers of culture located in particular places, writing in specific historical periods and situated in precise intellectual networks and philosophical controversies. This book illustrates that theory does not arise ‘out of the blue’ and highlights the importance of understanding how and why ideas emerge at certain points in time, why they gained currency and the influence that they have had. It follows the trajectory of criminology from pre-Enlightenment society through to the present day and the proliferation of criminological thinking. It explores: Setting the Stage for the Emergence of Criminology Classicist Criminology: The Search for Justice, Equality and the Rational ‘Man’ The Positivist Revolution, Physiognomy, Phrenology and the Science of ‘Othering’ Chicago School of Sociology: An Explosion of Ideas Developing a Sociological Criminology: Durkheim, Du Bois, Merton and Tannenbaum Feminism: Redressing the Gender Imbalance Confronting the Establishment: The Emergence of Critical Criminology From Theoretical Innovations to Political Engagement The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology provides an invaluable contribution to the growing conversation about criminology’s ‘origin story’ and the level that this is grounded in the idiosyncrasies of the North Atlantic world and its historical development. This book will be invaluable reading to students and academics engaged in studies of criminology and criminal justice.
Castles of our Conscience
Author: William G. StaplesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745678130
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Castles of our Conscience presents a new and distinctive analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control. Staples provides a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms of state policy-making and capacity. This framework supports an interpretation of the changing nature of institutions of social control in the United States from the beginning in the nineteenth century to the present day. A distinctive feature of the author’s approach is his critique of existing theories of the state as well as recent revisionist writing in social control. Both, he argues, have tended to either reduce the state to an instrument of class power or treat it in too ‘structuralist’ a fashion. Developing a sophisticated account of the relationship between the state and civil society he provides a history of social control policies in the United States that balances analytical concerns with historical narrative. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in sociology, politics and criminology.
The Philosophical Review
Author: Jacob Gould SchurmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
An international journal of general philosophy.
Untold Stories
Author: Nancy HansenPublisher: Canadian Scholars
ISBN: 177338046X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This long-awaited reader explores the history of Canadian people with disabilities from Confederation to current day. This edited collection focuses on Canadians with mental, physical, and cognitive disabilities, and discusses their lives, work, and influence on public policy. Organized by time period, the 23 chapters in this collection are authored by a diverse group of scholars who discuss the untold histories of Canadians with disabilities―Canadians who influenced science and technology, law, education, healthcare, and social justice. Selected chapters discuss disabilities among Indigenous women; the importance of community inclusion; the ubiquity of stairs in the Montreal metro; and the ethics of disability research. This volume is a terrific resource for students and anyone interested in disability studies, history, sociology, social work, geography, and education. Untold Stories: A Canadian Disability History Reader offers an exceptional presentation of influential people with various disabilities who brought about social change and helped to make Canada more accessible.