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American Social Problems
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This is a fantastic reproduction edition of the 1934 classic on American Social Problems. It's worth a read to compare with present day issues, student views, and teachings about social problems today...
PREFACE TO AMERICAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS (originally published in 1934)
This book is intended to be a first survey of social problems characteristic of American life today (1934). It is planned to stimulate the interest of young students in their own social world, to lead them to observe and to discuss the facts and conditions which they meet, and to search for satisfactory explanations.
While there is no attempt at completeness of description, the essential facts of each problem studied are presented, together with suggested lines of interpretation. Moreover, the particular problems discussed are considered, not in isolation, but in relation both to each other and to the background of American life. In spite of apparent diversity of problems, there is an underlying unity in social life. It is the hope of the authors that this book may help students not only to remember isolated facts about particular problems, but to become clearly conscious of this unity and of its significance in understanding the separate facts described.
Because of the definite purpose of the authors to make the book really suited to the needs of students, many teachers have been consulted, their suggestions in regard to methods of presentation have been weighed, and their criticism of varied plans of arrangement and treatment of subject-matter have been carefully considered. To these many teachers we owe a debt of gratitude which we hereby gratefully acknowledge.
In 1934, at the time of original publication, Walter Greenwood Beach was Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Edward Everett Walker previously worked at Southwest Missouri State Teachers College and Stanford University.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original Stanford University Press publication (ISBN 080470158X). Cover image courtesy the Library of Congress Photo Collection, Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange 1936.
CONTENTS
THE AUTHORS TO THE STUDENTS 1
GROUP LIFE
Chapter One. The Geographical Setting of Group Life 9
Chapter Two. Human Nature and Group Life 25
Chapter Three. Cultural Factors in Group Life 41
Chapter Four. The Rise of American Culture 56
PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND ADJUSTMENT
Chapter Five. Challenges of Population Growth 75
Chapter Six. Rural and Urban Groups and Problems 93
Chapter Seven. Social Adjustments Involving the Immigrant 122
Chapter Eight. The Negro in American Society 152
Chapter Nine. Problems of Health and Physical Well-Being 176
Chapter Ten. The Welfare of the Wage-Earner 202
Chapter Eleven. The Family 224
Chapter Twelve. The Welfare of Children 246
Chapter Thirteen. Poverty and the Welfare of Dependents 279
Chapter Fourteen. Crime and Its Treatment 301
LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE
Chapter Fifteen. Planning the Society of the Future 331
Chapter Sixteen. The Role of Education 344
Chapter Seventeen. The Role of Science 361
THE AUTHORS TO THE TEACHERS 378
INDEX 385
Land of Fair Promise Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1885-1941
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Land of Fair Promise
Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1885-1941
Judith Rosenberg Raftery
This book uses a case study of education and educational reform in Los Angeles as a lens for viewing a wide range of political and cultural questions involved in urban development in the American West, notable the manner and motives of those who changes school policy.
Rapid population growth after 1885 and the recognition that large numbers of school children were either non-white or non-English-speaking compelled Western Progressives to reestablish order and end corrupt schoolboard practices. Drawing on the ideas of Jane Addams and John Dewey, reformers made the Los Angeles school system an instance of apparently effective reform, not only in educational terms, but also administratively and in the broad range of social services provided under school direction -- penny-lunch programs, after-hour playgrounds, day-care centers, adult classes, and home classes for shut-in mothers. But these achievements bore increasingly equivocal results as industrialization, immigration, and urbanization contributed to immense social and economic problems, and reformers intensified programs to Americanize immigrant children. More complicated and divisive progressive politics vied increasingly with professionalization and grassroots pressure from immigrant groups to determine education policy.
Many of the leading Los Angeles reformers were women, newly empowered by suffrage, who expanded their campaigns for social change. Also, since women composed most of the teaching force, they began to see themselves as professional educators. But professionalization proved to be a double-edged sword. Better trained than their predecessors, women nevertheless had to fight to hold on to their status as the school system became more efficient, more structured, and more impersonal. Professionalization also led to clashes between professionals; psychologists introduced IQ measurement, and many classroom teachers found mental testing unreliable and sought alternate methods to evaluate the abilities of children.
Reformers, educators, and ethnic organizations worked assiduously to modify the social behavior of the now-diverse school population. Despite differences, these groups together built a new social fabric, a patchwork shaped by the unrelenting realities of twentieth-century America. the book is illustrated with 14 photographs.
Judith Rosenberg Raftery is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Chico.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Title Land of fair promise: politics and reform in Los Angeles schools, 1885-1941
Author Judith Rosenberg Raftery
Edition illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1992
ISBN 0804719306, 9780804719308
Length 284 pages
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