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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... continuing social problems stem from an ideological confusion that demands a political discourse in the terms of the Enlightenment but actu- ally adheres to Romantic impulses and ideals . The politics of the nation reverberate with the ...
... continuing social problems stem from an ideological confusion that demands a political discourse in the terms of the Enlightenment but actu- ally adheres to Romantic impulses and ideals . The politics of the nation reverberate with the ...
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... continuing and justifying social preferences than in achieving any of their assigned purposes . In the end , political rituals may , to a far greater degree than commonly accepted , be a necessary dimension and perhaps the largest ...
... continuing and justifying social preferences than in achieving any of their assigned purposes . In the end , political rituals may , to a far greater degree than commonly accepted , be a necessary dimension and perhaps the largest ...
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... entertainments that suppress attention to the nation's unmet needs and continuing social problems . In the end , the social services , as well as their academic intellectual life , are institutionalized forms of resistance to 1 ...
... entertainments that suppress attention to the nation's unmet needs and continuing social problems . In the end , the social services , as well as their academic intellectual life , are institutionalized forms of resistance to 1 ...
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... continuing concerns with drug and alcohol misuse , teenage pregnancies and births , and employment and underemploy- ment , along with many other apparent problems ( Miringoff and Miringoff 1999 ) .4 In 1993 , only Japan among the modern ...
... continuing concerns with drug and alcohol misuse , teenage pregnancies and births , and employment and underemploy- ment , along with many other apparent problems ( Miringoff and Miringoff 1999 ) .4 In 1993 , only Japan among the modern ...
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... continuing , unmet social needs . The effects of psychotherapy and counseling , which are the prevailing strategies of many personal social services , are notably unknown . The literature , such as it is , is even weaker in the other ...
... continuing , unmet social needs . The effects of psychotherapy and counseling , which are the prevailing strategies of many personal social services , are notably unknown . The literature , such as it is , is even weaker in the other ...
Contenido
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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