Science, reform, and politics in Victorian Britain: the Social Science Association, 1857-1886

Abstract

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Note on citations in the text List of abbreviations Introduction: the contexts of the Social Science Association Part I. Politics: 1. The origins of the Social Science Association: legal reform, the reformation of juveniles, and the property of married women in 'the Age of Equipoise' 2. The Social Science Association and the structure of mid-Victorian politics 3. Organising the Social Science Association Part II. Reform: 4. Liberalism divided and feminism divided: women and the Social Science Association 5. Transportation, reformation and convict discipline: the Social Science Association and Victorian penal policy 1853-71 6. Victorian socio-medical liberalism: the Social Science Association and state medicine 7. Labour and capital: the Social Science Association, trade unionism, and industrial harmony 8. The Social Science Association and middle-class education: secondary schooling, endowments, and professionalism in mid-Victorian England 9. The Social Science Association and the making of social policy Part III. Science: 10. Social science in domestic context: popular science, sociology, and a 'science of reform' 11. Social science in comparative international context Part IV. Decline: 12. The decline of the Social Science Association: Liberal division, specialisation, and the end of Equipoise Conclusion: the Social Science Association and social knowledge Appendices Select bibliography Index.