The duality of culture and practice: Poverty relief in New York City, 1888-1917

Theory and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 305-356

  Mohr, John W ^a   Duquenne, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 21744456247     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006896022092     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. This quote is taken from the second expanded edition (Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1901): 84-85. This edition has an additional 75 pages of material, most of it devoted to an even greater and more detailed classification of the poor.
2. Henderson's scheme (especially in the second edition) is reminscent of the taxonomic efforts of the English ethnographer Charles Booth, who clearly influenced Henderson. Henderson's taxonomic efforts were more encompassing than Booth's however, in that he included both the "defective" and "delinquent" classes in his analysis. For the former, Henderson drew heavily upon medical and psychiatric taxonomies differentiating, for example, among "microcephalous," "hydrocephalic," "eclampsic," and "sclerotic idiots" (1901, p. 175-176). For the latter he drew upon a variety of sources, paying special attention to the field of "criminal anthropology," which included Lombroso's work on "criminal types" and numerous similar efforts.
3. For a review of the classificatory work of nineteenth-century American social reformers, see chapters 5 and 6 in Molar's dissertation, "Community, Bureaucracy and Social Relief: An Institutional Analysis of Organizational Forms in New York City, 1888-1917," (Ph.D. disseration, Department of Sociology, Yale University, 1992).