Social Science for What ? : Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up

About the Author vii Foreword x Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 PART I Reconnecting to the Progressive Past 11 CHAPTER 1 Engaging the Social Question at the Early Russell Sage Foundation 13 CHAPTER 2 Social Science, the Social Question, and the Value-Neutrality Debate 48 PART II Understanding the Challenge from the Right 71 CHAPTER 3 Unsettling the Social Question: From Consensus to Counterrevolution in the Postwar Politics of Knowledge 73 CHAPTER 4 The Poor Law, the Social Question, and the New Politics of Reform 102 CHAPTER 5 The Counterintelligentsia, the Social Question, and the New Gospel of Wealth 118 CHAPTER 6 Conclusion 140 Notes 147 References 157 Index 169