Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 221 for “"social reform"”.
-
Dartington Hall and social reform in interwar Britain
In the wake of the First World War, reformers across the Western world questioned laissez-faire liberalism, the self-oriented and market-driven ruling doctrine of the nineteenth century. This philosophy was blamed, variously, for the war, for industrialisation and for urbanisation; for a way of …
-
Boston's settlement housing: social reform in an industrial city
… economy (namely, extensive poverty and increased social segregation) or the rise of big cities. As a result, progressive social reformers developed new methods of helping poor, largely immigrant communities adjust to a rapidly changing, increasingly complex urban society. One such effort was the …
-
Piety and politics: Baptist social reform in America, 1770-1860
… examines the relationship between Baptists and social reform from 1770 through 1860. Chapter one examines two explanations to the social movements of this period. Attention is given to the tension between personal piety and social activism inherent in Baptist life. Chapter two explores the most …
-
Social Reform in Model Cities: The East St. Louis Case
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7309960.pdf: 12548297 bytes, checksum: b83963376eac53e7acc28f5721f642d4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
-
American Images of Childhood in an Age of Educational and Social Reform, 1870-1915
… images dealt with the extraordinarily complex social issue of children and childhood, and the way that the sentimental value of children evolved alongside a transitioning nation. Post-bellum genre painters portrayed boys as defiant mascots of the nation, in communion with nature, at odds with …
-
From Social Reform to Social Science: The Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, 1877-1912
… today. Although a pioneer in the fields of social reform, industrial education, women's organizations, and social science, it has long been neglected by historians. The first thirty-five years of the Union's history were particularly important in establishing a diversity of activities and a …
-
Social reform in the burned-over district: Rochester, New York as a test case, 1830-1854
<p>In the decades following 1820, a variety of social reform crusades swept western New York. Although none of these crusades was peculiar to New York, this region somehow seemed more receptive to them than any other section of the country. The region's responsiveness to reform movements and …
-
Rethinking the clinical vs. social reform debate: a dialectical approach to defining social work in the 21st century
There is a historical tension in social work between the clinical and social reform perspectives. The original goal for this dissertation was to offer pragmatism as a philosophical orientation that would make sense of these two seemingly disparate perspectives by explaining how they may coexist. A …
-
Dropouts to top scouts? : An analysis of the use of the military as a tool for social reform
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1994.
-
The limitation of planning role in social reform : a case study of urban removal programs in Seoul (1967-1972)
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1983.
-
Religious women in modern American social reform: Evangeline Booth, Aimee Semple Mcpherson, Dorothy Day, and the rhetorical invention of humanitarian authority
… offer compelling visions of religiously inspired social service, but to distance themselves from the older Victorian cultural ideals of “charity” that were being dramatically challenged by the development of “scientific” standards and state-based authority in humanitarian endeavors. This study …
-
A proposal for social reform in the reign of Catherine II : Aleksei Polenov's response to the Free Economic Society competition of 1766-68
… both of the intelligentsia and of the Russian social reform movement. Insofar as social critics were non-noble, un-"alienated" and active prior to the last decades of the century, they constitute a relatively unexplored chapter in the history of Russian social thought. It is this problem which …
-
More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
… of the twentieth century were a time of vast social and economic change. Industrialization altered the ways people related to each other and to their social, political, and cultural institutions. Some perceived that the rise of cities, changing middle-class values, and changing work patterns …
-
Demolition in American city planning
… the three main arguments for demolition: social reform, modernization, and non-conformity. Through the lens of each, it looks at the history of American demolition and points out the flawed reasoning that justifies demolition today. It focuses especially on the history of Boston, …
Page 1 of 12