The Pittsburgh Survey and the Survey Movement: An Episode in the History of Expertise
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1996
Abstract
The Pittsburgh Survey was part of the survey movement. The movement was characterized in three key documents of self-interpretation: the fi rst, an article by Paul U. Kellogg, Shelby Harrison, and George Palmer in the Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in 1912; the second, a paper by Kellogg and Neva Deardorff presented to an international social work convention in 1928; and the third, Shelby Harrison’s introductory essay to the catalogue of surveys constructed by Allen Eaton in 1930. Ordinarily, such documents provide the beginning of historical analysis and are critically revised by later historians. However, there has been relatively little written about the surveys and the survey movement since it expired (the exception is the volume edited by Bulmer et al. 1991). So these texts give shape to a kind of dim memory of a movement to promote social reform through sociological research, which, for mysterious reasons, disappeared.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
The Pittsburgh Survey and the Survey Movement: An Episode in the History of Expertise, in M. Greenwald & M. Anderson (Eds.), Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century, University of Pittsburgh Press, p. 35-49
Scholar Commons Citation
Turner, Stephen, "The Pittsburgh Survey and the Survey Movement: An Episode in the History of Expertise" (1996). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 126.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phi_facpub/126
