Order and Control in American Socio-Economic Thought: Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform

by Charles McCann

Overview

The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American social scientists, drawing on their experiences with the German social welfare system, became increasingly interested not merely in identifying problems, but in prescribing means by which to effect social change. This book is an effort to identify the various influences upon critical thinkers, and to examine their approaches to solving the social problems of the time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136473609
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Series:	Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Charles R. McCann, Jr., is a research associate in the Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments I: An Introduction to Progressivism II: Lester Frank Ward: Progenitor of American Progressivism III: Degeneracy and Directed Order: Charles Horton Cooley and Progressive-Era Sociology IV: Edward Alsworth Ross: The Need for Social Control V: Richard Theodore Ely: Christian Socialist and Prophet of Paternalism VI: Henry Carter Adams and the Regulatory State VII: Prolegomenon to the Social Philosophy of John Dewey Conclusion