Methods of social study / by Sidney and Beatrice Webb.

  • Sidney Webb
Date:
1932
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Credit: Methods of social study / by Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the other, the class antagonisms of profit-making capitalists and proletarian wage-earners. Moreover, in the department on which our studies have been concentrated, we have been unable, through lack of qualification, to use, and perhaps even adequately to appreciate, the Statistical Method. Our speciality has been a comparative study of the working of particular social institutions in a single country, made by observation and analysis, through personal participation or watching the organisation at work, the taking of evidence from other persons, the scrutiny of all accessible documents, and the con¬ sultation of general literature. If students and in¬ vestigators find the volume helpful, our aim will have been attained. Any of them wishing further explanations are invited to communicate with one or other of us. SIDNEY and BEATRICE WEBB. Passfield Corner, Liphook, Hants, England, September 1932.