Social Survey in Global Perspective, 1900-2020s

Charlotte Greenhalgh is Senior Lecturer and Convenor of the History Program at the University of Waikato. Her project on the history of pregnancy in twentieth-century New Zealand has been supported by a Royal Society of New Zealand research grant. She is also working on collaborative projects on the international histories of social surveys, hormonal pregnancy tests, and perinatal medicine. Charlotte is the author of Aging in Twentieth-century Britain (University of California Press, 2018).

“An immensely readable and interesting discussion of the history of social surveys across the globe, with different questions and populations in mind. The editors have done an excellent job selecting Contributors who speak to surveys in different contexts with skill.” • Prof. Matt Dawson, University of Glasgow

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsForeword: The Politics of the Twentieth-Century Social SurveyMike SavageIntroduction: Everyday Empiricism: Social Surveys in the Twentieth and Twenty-First CenturiesCharlotte Greenhalgh, Clare Corbould, and Warwick AndersonPart I: The Social Survey Beyond the Imperial Metropolitan Centre, 1907-1930sChapter 1. Extending the German Enquete Overseas: South Pacific Responses to the 1907 Commission for the Study of Native LawDaniel Midena and Anna EchterhölterChapter 2. Researching while Black and Female: How the Unsung Labour of African American Women Pioneered Social Survey MethodsClare CorbouldChapter 3. The League of Nations International Survey of Traffic in Women across AsiaJulia T. MartínezPart II: The Survey and the State 1920s–1950sChapter 4. Facts of the Nation: Social Surveys and State Remaking in China, 1920s-1930sTong LamChapter 5. Surveying the City and the Country: Universities, Social Science Research and the State in AustraliaKate Darian-SmithChapter 6. ‘We Talk So Much about Democracy, and Do So Little about It’: Surveying African American Soldiers in the Second World WarDavid GoodmanChapter 7. The Strange Career of Social Surveys in the Early People’s Republic of ChinaArunabh GhoshPart III: From Experience to Opinion: Researchers and the Emergence of the Surveyable Citizen in the West, 1940s–1980sChapter 8. Different but the Same: Re-Reading Archived Fieldnotes from Young and Firth’s Classic Accounts of Postwar Working-Class Community in BritainJon LawrenceChapter 9. Happy Families and the Rise of Social Science Research in the British Popular Press in the 1930sLaura KingChapter 10. ‘Our Resources Were Ourselves’: Women and Grassroots Survey Research in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1960s–1980sCharlotte GreenhalghChapter 11. ‘If You Weren’t Known’: Racialized Practices of Surveying and Surveillance in Twentieth-Century AustraliaKatherine Ellinghaus and Jordana SilversteinPart IV: A Return to Experience when the Personal Became Political: Family Life, Relationships, and Sex, 1970s–2022Chapter 12. ‘What Do You Think?’ The Australian Royal Commission on Human Relationships, 1974–1977Michelle ArrowChapter 13. Sex Talk: A Short History of the Sex Survey in AustraliaZora SimicAfterword: Polymorphous InquiriesWarwick Anderson and Catherine WaldbyIndex