Cities and towns; Social psychology; Sociology; Sociology, Urban
Attempts to describe the people of London “as they exist in London
under the influence of education, religion, and administration.”
Required seventeen years for its completion. Contains a wealth of
information about the city and city life.
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Harrison, Shelby M. _Social Conditions in an American City: A Summary
of the Findings of the Springfield Survey_ (New York, 1920).
Johnson, Clarence Richard. _Constantinople Today, or the Pathfinder
Survey of Constantinople: A Study in Oriental Social Life_ (New
York and London, 1923).
Kellogg, Paul U. (editor). _The Pittsburgh Survey_ (6 vols.; New York,
1914).
Kenngott, George F. _The Record of a City: A Social Survey of Lowell,
Massachusetts_ (New York, 1912).
Ostwald, Hans O. A. “Grossstadt Dokumente,” (Berlin, 1905).
A series of fifty volumes by various authors giving accounts of
personal experience and investigation in the local communities and
among various groupings and personality types in the city of Berlin
and in some other large cities of Europe.
Rowntree, B. Seebohm. _Poverty: A Study of Town Life_ (London, 1901).
Rowntree, B. S., and Lasker, Bruno. _Unemployment: A Social Study_
(London, 1911).
2. The social survey is not only a technique which has been employed to
study the urban community, but has grown into a movement of considerable
proportions. From another standpoint the social survey may also be
regarded as a means of control. Many of the “surveys” are merely single
investigations of administration, housing, justice, education,
recreation, in urban and rural communities, carried on by the group
itself or by some outside experts called in for the purpose. Others are
highly integrated studies of the community in all its phases. There is a
tendency at the present time for systematic social research to take the
place of the social survey in the study of community life. The latter
emphasizes diagnosis and treatment, while the former strives to develop
methods of disinterested research into various aspects of city life.
Aronovici, Carol. _The Social Survey_ (New York, 1916).
Burns, Allen T. “Organization of Community Forces,” _Proceedings of
Nat. Con. Charities and Corrections, 1916_, pp. 62–78.
Elmer, Manuel C. “Social Surveys of Urban Communities,” Ph.D. Thesis,
University of Chicago (Menasha, Wisconsin, 1914).
Considers the social survey up to 1914 and outlines the scope and
methods of the urban community survey. Also his “Technique of the
Social Surveys” (Lawrence, Kansas, 1917).
Kellogg, P. U., Harrison, S. M., and Palmer, George T. _The Social
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of New York_, Vol. II (July, 1912), 475–544.
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