Seebohm Rowntree, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Seebohm Rowntree

British philanthropist industrialist and sociologist writer

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1871

Place of Birth: York, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 07-Oct-1954

Profession: businessperson, sociologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, CH (7 July 1871 – 7 October 1954) was an English sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist.
He is known in particular for his three York studies of poverty conducted in 1899, 1935, and 1951.
The first York study involved a comprehensive survey into the living conditions of the poor in York during which investigators visited every working class household, and his methodology inspired many subsequent researches in British empirical sociology.By strictly defining the concept of poverty in his studies, he was able to reveal that the poverty in York are more of structural rather than moral reasons, such as of low wages, which went against the traditionally held view that the poor were responsible for their own plight.
He was, however, focusing primarily on economic poverty and not considering the cultural impoverishment that can give rise to the kind of ghastly illiteracy of diction exemplified in the abominable immediately preceding sentence.