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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... equality among citizens and the routine production of more reliable information to inform the intelligence of democracy . Yet even cautious steps in this direction require greater public spending , an extremely unpopular choice . The ...
... equality among citizens and the routine production of more reliable information to inform the intelligence of democracy . Yet even cautious steps in this direction require greater public spending , an extremely unpopular choice . The ...
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... equality , polit- ical candidates for national office are running and winning on historical sentimentality , the long - discredited planks of returning responsibility for the reform of personal deviance back once again to the ...
... equality , polit- ical candidates for national office are running and winning on historical sentimentality , the long - discredited planks of returning responsibility for the reform of personal deviance back once again to the ...
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... equality but in the end produce an imagery of extreme individualism through feckless rituals of state interventions that cannot possibly realize those goals . To the contrary , the embedded parsimony of social welfare provisions for ...
... equality but in the end produce an imagery of extreme individualism through feckless rituals of state interventions that cannot possibly realize those goals . To the contrary , the embedded parsimony of social welfare provisions for ...
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... equality that eclipses temporal political tolerances . Human Services and Personal Social Services Human services constitute the broadest category of planned care ; they include health care and public health provisions , education , and ...
... equality that eclipses temporal political tolerances . Human Services and Personal Social Services Human services constitute the broadest category of planned care ; they include health care and public health provisions , education , and ...
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... Security in the United States in order to provide greater equality and sufficiency perhaps awaits a resolution of the nation's social stratifi- cation . ) Acknowledgments I wish to pay debts . This book represents xviii Preface.
... Security in the United States in order to provide greater equality and sufficiency perhaps awaits a resolution of the nation's social stratifi- cation . ) Acknowledgments I wish to pay debts . This book represents xviii Preface.
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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