The Social Survey Movement and Sociology in the United States
- 1 October 1973
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 21 (2) , 284-298
- https://doi.org/10.2307/799546
Abstract
This paper traces the development of the Social Survey movement in England and the United States, with particular emphasis on the latter, and also attempts to delineate the reciprocal influence it had upon American sociology. In looking at the history of this movement an attempt is made to show how it must be approached in terms of contemporary ideologies. Research of this kind was characterized not only by a previously absent concern with the understanding of the total community by empirical means, but also by a search for the source of social problems which looked not to the individual but to the larger society. During the early decades of this century the Survey movement affected sociological research and writings in the areas of both methodology and community studies.Keywords
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