Pauperism and poverty: Henry George, William Graham Sumner, and the ideological origins of modern American social science.
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| Title: | Pauperism and poverty: Henry George, William Graham Sumner, and the ideological origins of modern American social science. |
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| Authors: | Sklansky, Jeff |
| Source: | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. Spring99, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p111-138. 28p. |
| Subjects: | Capitalism, Social sciences, George, Henry, 1839-1897, Sumner, William Graham, 1840-1910, Economics, Social psychology |
| Geographic Terms: | United States |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the relationship between the development of industrial capitalism and the development of modern social science in the United States through the writings of two of the best–known writers on social science in the late nineteenth century: Henry George, the apostle of the rights of labor and author of the classic critique of private ownership of land, Progress and Poverty; and William Graham Sumner, the arch defender of the rights of capital and author of a pioneering treatise on Folkways. The paper traces and analyzes their mutual movement away from classical political economy and toward a new social psychology in response to rising economic inequality. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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