HISTORY 7B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: American Social Science Association, William Graham Sumner, Ragged Dick
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History 7b lecture social science in the gilded age. Stark inequalities nothing new, but to many there seemed to be excessive levels of splendor and squalor in the late 19th century. 3 intellectual/reformist ways that people responded to inequality and rise of industrial society. Think of society in a scientific way, as opposed to a religious interpretation, and prevailing idea that should use knowledge/science to shape government policies over society. Science of society meant very diferent things to different people. Pop culture of the time focused on rags to riches , associated with children"s book author. Post-cw- liberals lived in cities, middle-class and well educated, heavily republican: editors and writers of major intellectual magazines. American social science association studying and discussing issues of education, health, economy, and jurisprudence: study social phenomena to influence public policy, believed society governed by natural laws discovered through study, implemented through scientific policy. Any policy not on this basis special interest class legislation .
