The social survey in historical perspective / Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales and Kathryn Kish Sklar -- The social survey in social perspective, 1830-1930 / Eileen Janes Yeo -- Charles Booth's survey of Life and labour of the people in London 1889-1903 / Kevin Bales -- Hull-house maps and papers : social science as womens's work in the 1890s / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- The place of social investigation, social theory and social work in the approach to late Victorian and Edwardian social problems : the case of Beatrice Webb and Helen Bosanquet / Jane Lewis -- W.E.B. Du Bois as a social investigator : The Philadelphia negro 1899 / Martin Bulmer -- Concepts of poverty in the British social surveys from Charles Booth to Arthur Bowley / E.P. Hennock
The part in relation to the whole : how to generalise? : the prehistory of representative sampling / Alain Desrosières -- The Pittsburgh survey and the social survey movement : a sociological road not taken / Steven R. Cohen -- The world of the academic quantifiers : the Columbia University family and its connections / Stephen P. Turner -- The decline of the social survey movement and the rise of American empirical sociology / Martin Bulmer -- The social survey in Germany before 1933 / Irmela Gorges -- Anglo-American contacts in the development of research methods before 1945 / Jennifer Platt -- The social survey in historical perspective : a governmental perspective / Roger Davidson -- The dangers of castle building : surveying the social survey / Seth Koven
