Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Introduction CAUSE FOR CONCERN
- Part One THE CREED AND THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 1 THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH
- Chapter 2 THE CREED OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 3 THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 4 BIRTH OF THE SOCIAL WORKER
- Chapter 5 THE STUDY OF SOCIETY
- Chapter 6 THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT
- Chapter 7 A VOLUNTARY WORKER IN THE WELFARE STATE
- Chapter 8 THE GLORY THAT WAS GRANBY
- Chapter 9 THE DISINHERITED SOCIETY
- Chapter 10 DEMOCRACY REDISCOVERED
- Part Two TRACT FOR THE TIMES
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - THE STUDY OF SOCIETY
from Part One - THE CREED AND THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Introduction CAUSE FOR CONCERN
- Part One THE CREED AND THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 1 THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH
- Chapter 2 THE CREED OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 3 THE CRAFT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Chapter 4 BIRTH OF THE SOCIAL WORKER
- Chapter 5 THE STUDY OF SOCIETY
- Chapter 6 THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT
- Chapter 7 A VOLUNTARY WORKER IN THE WELFARE STATE
- Chapter 8 THE GLORY THAT WAS GRANBY
- Chapter 9 THE DISINHERITED SOCIETY
- Chapter 10 DEMOCRACY REDISCOVERED
- Part Two TRACT FOR THE TIMES
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In which as the first student to take a degree in social science, I am introduced to the study of society at Liverpool University. I describe the slow growth of community development in terms of my own experience of unemployment centres, community councils, and youth work, and consider the consequences for the voluntary movement of the emancipation of women.
The decision as to what form a memorial to Charles Booth should take had been deferred because he died during the war. However, in 1922 it was eventually decided to press ahead with the endowment of a Charles Booth Chair of Social Science at the University of Liverpool. It was an admirably appropriate decision because Booth had not only been a Liverpool shipowner but had pioneered the study of society with his great survey of the Life and Labour of the People of London (op. cit., p. 69). The spirit of reconstruction was in the air. The war stood for a clean sweep of old ideas and old ways of doing things. The spontaneous philanthropy of the past must give way to a planned and organised attack on the problem of poverty. What more appropriate memorial to the great pioneer of the application of scientific method to social conditions could there be than a tangible commitment to the furtherance of the approach he had pioneered. The School of Social Science, as the new Professor declared in his Inaugural Lecture, was to be a centre of citizenship as well as of teaching and research.
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- The Disinherited SocietyA Personal View of Social Responsibility in Liverpool During the Twentieth Century, pp. 69 - 80Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1996