Journal Of Social Science: Containing The Proceedings Of The American Association - Softcover

Leypoldt & Holt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461601508 ISBN 13: 9780461601503

Publisher: HardPress, 1868

Synopsis

Journal Of Social Science: Containing The Proceedings Of The American Association is a late 19th?century compendium of essays, reports, and proceedings from the American Association for Social Science, dated 1869–1870. The volume surveys a broad panorama of reform across Europe and the United States, including cooperative enterprises, social welfare experiments, educational access, statistics, immigration, and constitutional law. It collects discussions of the Familistère factory town model, Berlin's People’s Kitchens, and railroad welfare programs; analyzes state?assisted life and accident insurance; promotes mass education through affordable publishing, libraries, and cooperative printing; and documents international statistics, census methods, and expositions. It features substantial treatments on immigration in the United States (Kapp), the centrality of statistics (Garfield), contested elections, prison reform, public charities, deaf education, mental health, and transportation economics. The work emphasizes empirical data, institutional design, and cross?national exchange as tools for policy formation and social improvement. It aims to inform scholars, policymakers, and reform?minded readers about ongoing social science activity circa 1869–1870.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1868
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461601508
• ISBN 13: 9780461601503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 534