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  title info:
    title: Booth, Charles
  name:
    name part: Welshman, John.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Atkinson, Paul
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Delamont, Sara
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Cernat, Alexandru
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sakshaug, Joseph W.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Williams, Richard A.
    name part: active 2020
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Early writing on Charles Booth (1840-1916) placed his work in terms of the history of social investigation and claimed him as a social scientist. In particular, Thomas and Margaret Simey wrote in 1960 that Booth's most striking innovation was his invention of the poverty line; his definition of poverty was "perhaps the first operational definition in the social sciences," in the sense that his provisional hypothesis could be tested experimentally (p. 184). He intended to demonstrate that the incidence of poverty could be measured with precision, and its importance could be appraised, uninfluenced by emotion or doctrine. He distinguished between indolence and immorality, between poverty due to low earnings and poverty due to improvidence or immorality. His poverty line remained unaltered until further work had ...
  target audience: specialized
  note: by John Welshman ; edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Sociologie
  subject:
    topic: Géographie
  subject:
    topic: history (discipline)
  subject:
    topic: sociology
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  classification: D16.4 G7P55 2020
  classification: 907.124123
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Booth, Charles
  identifier: 9781529746839
  identifier: 1529746833
  identifier: 9781526421036
  identifier: 1526421038
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 201001
    record change date: 20240923170435.7
    record identifier: in00005495578
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng