Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-167) and index.
Engaging the social question at the early Russell Sage Foundation -- Social science, the social question, and the value-neutrality debate -- Unsettling the social question: from consensus to counterrevolution in the postwar politics of knowledge -- The poor law, the social question, and the new politics of reform -- The counterintelligentsia, the social question, and the new gospel of wealth -- Conclusion