The Socially Inadequate
How Shall We Designate and Sort Them
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2195652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harry Hamilton Laughlin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1921 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-70 |
| Publication date | 1921-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/213267 |
| OpenAlex | W2052828116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The alliteration "defectives, dependents, delinquents" has become a scrapbasket title. We need first a general title which will convey a clear-cut meaning, second a subsidiary list for the subclasses. Giddings' satirical suggestion of "The Seven Devils" to be known by the fourth letter "D." List of subclass titles proposed to the Census Bureau. The phrase "socially inadequate." Opinions of sociologists upon proposed designations. Present usage of state institutions. Summary
Alliteration · Census · Information retrieval · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Phrase · Population · Sociology · sort · State (computer science) · Census and Population Estimation · Computer Science · Demography · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |