American Policy Making: Welfare as RitualRowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 247 páginas American Policy Making will surely create controversy by challenging the prevailing ethos of humanitarianism. Epstein points to the perils of unrestricted subjectivity--the corruption of both social science and social discourse--and argues for a more disciplined approach to policy making. Rather than scientific theory and applied scientific practice, the social sciences have been appropriated to create ideology--corrective myths in support of social denial. The social sciences script fables of cure, prevention, and rehabilitation that falsely testify to the feasibility of inexpensive and culturally compatible solutions to deep social problems. Rather than providing effective service, social welfare programs are rituals of social values, expressing, proselytizing, reaffirming, and strengthening factional preferences. This is a uniquely unsentimental analysis of American social policy-making with great scope and depth, particularly in the personal social services, philosophic and historical dimensions. It is also a bold call to action to create more effective policies for social welfare. |
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... achieving its avowed goals . These ceremonies largely support political institutions in shaping and maintaining social bound- aries and the preferences that endorse them . The purity of rituals increases as they address issues of ...
... achieving its avowed goals . These ceremonies largely support political institutions in shaping and maintaining social bound- aries and the preferences that endorse them . The purity of rituals increases as they address issues of ...
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... achieving any of their assigned purposes . In the end , political rituals may , to a far greater degree than commonly ... achieve their goals . Indeed , the Social Security program largely routinizes intrafamilial sharing in the form of ...
... achieving any of their assigned purposes . In the end , political rituals may , to a far greater degree than commonly ... achieve their goals . Indeed , the Social Security program largely routinizes intrafamilial sharing in the form of ...
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... achieve any production function . Their pervasive ineffectiveness establishes the probity of looking for the meaning of social welfare arrangements outside of their explicit program goals . That is , the personal social services do not ...
... achieve any production function . Their pervasive ineffectiveness establishes the probity of looking for the meaning of social welfare arrangements outside of their explicit program goals . That is , the personal social services do not ...
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... achieve their goals . Social services for the poor constitute one of the principal stages on which social factions compete over the stratification of American society . At the same time that many social services provide some degree of ...
... achieve their goals . Social services for the poor constitute one of the principal stages on which social factions compete over the stratification of American society . At the same time that many social services provide some degree of ...
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... achieved their goals . To the contrary , a large body of evidence points to the unusual demonstration effects achieved by programs under glass , that is , by small - scale tests of social welfare interventions that employ highly ...
... achieved their goals . To the contrary , a large body of evidence points to the unusual demonstration effects achieved by programs under glass , that is , by small - scale tests of social welfare interventions that employ highly ...
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Political Theory Ideology and Social Welfare | 25 |
The Willow World of Virtue Rationality and Effectiveness in the Personal Social Services | 47 |
The American Ethos 1 Two Civil Religions | 91 |
The American Ethos 2 America SpeaksThe Pols and Policy Choice | 111 |
The American Ethos 3 Social Welfare Services as Rituals of the Civil Religion | 135 |
Two Romances The Enlightenment and the AntiEnlightenment | 151 |
Science Limited Science and Scientism | 193 |
Conclusion | 211 |
Afterword | 221 |
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About the Author | |
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