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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... foster care for children without families ) and through programmatic strategies of cure , prevention , or rehabilitation that are intended to change personal behavior and remedy the consequences of prior depriva- xii Preface.
... foster care for children without families ) and through programmatic strategies of cure , prevention , or rehabilitation that are intended to change personal behavior and remedy the consequences of prior depriva- xii Preface.
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Welfare as Ritual William M. Epstein. change personal behavior and remedy the consequences of prior depriva- tion and imprudent willfulness . Publicly financed income security programs targeted on the nonpoor are expressions of social ...
Welfare as Ritual William M. Epstein. change personal behavior and remedy the consequences of prior depriva- tion and imprudent willfulness . Publicly financed income security programs targeted on the nonpoor are expressions of social ...
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... behavioral conformity . There is much to be learned about American society and its social policy - making process from the reluctant provision of public and private charity for services whose tacit importance relates only tangentially ...
... behavioral conformity . There is much to be learned about American society and its social policy - making process from the reluctant provision of public and private charity for services whose tacit importance relates only tangentially ...
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... behavior . Indeed , the ideolog- ical role of social service agencies , typically reinforcing regnant social val- ues and implementing the dictates of social efficiency , dominates their service roles . The obedience of social service ...
... behavior . Indeed , the ideolog- ical role of social service agencies , typically reinforcing regnant social val- ues and implementing the dictates of social efficiency , dominates their service roles . The obedience of social service ...
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... behavior which is expected of them by virtue of their membership of society " ( Citro and Michael 1995 , 22 ) . Then , too , poverty beyond simply economic insufficiency is profitably understood as a gen- eral cultural phenomenon ...
... behavior which is expected of them by virtue of their membership of society " ( Citro and Michael 1995 , 22 ) . Then , too , poverty beyond simply economic insufficiency is profitably understood as a gen- eral cultural phenomenon ...
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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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