Rowntree, B. Seebohm. Poverty: A Study of Town Life (London, 1901).
Rowntree, B. S., and Lasker, Bruno. Unemployment: A Social Study (London, 1911).
2. The social survey is not only a technique which has been employed to study the urban community, but has grown into a movement of considerable proportions. From another standpoint the social survey may also be regarded as a means of control. Many of the “surveys” are merely single investigations of administration, housing, justice, education, recreation, in urban and rural communities, carried on by the group itself or by some outside experts called in for the purpose. Others are highly integrated studies of the community in all its phases. There is a tendency at the present time for systematic social research to take the place of the social survey in the study of community life. The latter emphasizes diagnosis and treatment, while the former strives to develop methods of disinterested research into various aspects of city life.
Aronovici, Carol. The Social Survey (New York, 1916).
Burns, Allen T. “Organization of Community Forces,” Proceedings of Nat. Con. Charities and Corrections, 1916, pp. 62–78.
Elmer, Manuel C. “Social Surveys of Urban Communities,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Chicago (Menasha, Wisconsin, 1914).
Considers the social survey up to 1914 and outlines the scope and methods of the urban community survey. Also his “Technique of the Social Surveys” (Lawrence, Kansas, 1917).
Kellogg, P. U., Harrison, S. M., and Palmer, George T. The Social Survey Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York, Vol. II (July, 1912), 475–544.
“The Social Survey and Its Further Development,” Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc., 1915.
3. While there are many periodicals which contain departments devoted to the urban community, such as the Survey, the Journal of Social Forces, and a number of others, the following are listed as typical of periodicals exclusively concerned with various phases of the study of the city.