Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A note on citations in the text of papers published in the Transactions and Sessional Proceedings of the Social Science… -- Abbreviations -- Institutions -- Sources -- Publications -- INTRODUCTION The contexts of the Social Science Association -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- PART I Politics -- CHAPTER 1 The origins of the Social Science Association: legal reform, the reformation of juveniles, and the property of… -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- CHAPTER 2 The Social Science Association and the structure of mid-Victorian politics -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- CHAPTER 3 Organising the Social Science Association -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- PART II Reform -- CHAPTER 4 Liberalism divided and feminism divided: women and the Social Science Association -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- CHAPTER 5 Transportation, reformation, and convict discipline: The Social Science Association and Victorian penal policy… -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- CHAPTER 6 Victorian socio-medical liberalism: the Social Science Association and state medicine -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- CHAPTER 7 Labour and capital: the Social Science Association, trade unionism, and industrial harmony -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- CHAPTER 8 The Social Science Association and middle-class education: secondary schooling, endowments, and… -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- CHAPTER 9 The Social Science Association and the making of social policy -- I. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION AND THE MID-VICTORIAN STATE -- II. THE MAKING OF MID-VICTORIAN SOCIAL POLICY: BENTHAM, BUREAUCRATS, AND IDEAS -- III. EXPERTISE AND DEMOCRACY: THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION AND MID-VICTORIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT.

PART III Science -- CHAPTER 10 Social science in domestic context: popular science, sociology, and a 'science of reform' -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- CHAPTER 11 Social science in comparative international context -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- PART IV Decline -- CHAPTER 12 The decline of the Social Science Association: Liberal division, specialisation, and the end of Equipoise -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- CONCLUSION The Social Science Association and social knowledge -- I -- II -- Appendix I -- BIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION PRESENT AT ITS INAUGURAL MEETING IN BROUGHAM'S HOUSE… -- Appendix II -- SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CONGRESSES, 1857-1884 -- Appendix III -- PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESSES, 1857-1884 -- Appendix IV Departmental presidents, 1857-1884 -- JURISPRUDENCE AND AMENDMENT OF THE LAW -- EDUCATION -- PUBLIC HEALTH -- SOCIAL ECONOMY (1857-63)/ECONOMY AND TRADE (1864-1884) -- PUNISHMENT AND REFORMATION (1857-1863) -- TRADE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (1861-1863) -- ART (1876-1884) -- Select bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS USED AND CITED IN THE TEXT -- NEWSPAPERS -- JOURNALS -- OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) -- PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES -- WORKS OF REFERENCE -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATIONS -- Index.