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.
