@article{ref1,
title="The Socially Inadequate: How Shall We Designate and Sort Them?",
journal="American journal of sociology",
year="1921",
author="Laughlin, Harry H.",
volume="27",
number="1",
pages="54-70",
abstract="The alliteration &quot;defectives, dependents, delinquents&quot; has become a scrap-basket 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 &quot;The Seven Devils&quot; to be known by the fourth letter &quot;D.&quot; List of subclass titles proposed to the Census Bureau. The phrase &quot;socially inadequate.&quot; Opinions of sociologists upon proposed designations. Present usage of state institutions. Summary.<p />",
language="",
issn="0002-9602",
doi="10.1086/213267",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/213267"
}