Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-295) and index.
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 teachers 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.
