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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... criticism as a natural right based upon the autonomy of the intellect more than in the development of any specific objective methodology . The philosophes wrote history and philosophy ; they rarely engaged in science . Aside from a ...
... criticism as a natural right based upon the autonomy of the intellect more than in the development of any specific objective methodology . The philosophes wrote history and philosophy ; they rarely engaged in science . Aside from a ...
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... criticism , develop the corrective myths that justify the stringen- cies of contemporary social welfare policy . Particularly as they concern themselves with social welfare decision making , the social sciences prom- ulgate a malleable ...
... criticism , develop the corrective myths that justify the stringen- cies of contemporary social welfare policy . Particularly as they concern themselves with social welfare decision making , the social sciences prom- ulgate a malleable ...
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... criticism of the social decision - making process , especially among highly technological societies that have replaced Mother Earth as the abiding goddess of richness and plenty with effigies of science , is that its tenets are ...
... criticism of the social decision - making process , especially among highly technological societies that have replaced Mother Earth as the abiding goddess of richness and plenty with effigies of science , is that its tenets are ...
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... criticism . 7. Citro and Michael ( 1995 , a National Academy of Science report ) recognize the inadequacy of welfare payments and call for almost a 20 percent increase in payments , along with the implementation of a relative threshold ...
... criticism . 7. Citro and Michael ( 1995 , a National Academy of Science report ) recognize the inadequacy of welfare payments and call for almost a 20 percent increase in payments , along with the implementation of a relative threshold ...
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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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