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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... Ideology , and Social Welfare 25 Chapter 2 The Willow World of Virtue : Rationality and Effectiveness in the Personal Social Services 47 Chapter 3 The American Ethos 1 : Two Civil Religions 91 Chapter 4 The American Ethos 2 : America ...
... Ideology , and Social Welfare 25 Chapter 2 The Willow World of Virtue : Rationality and Effectiveness in the Personal Social Services 47 Chapter 3 The American Ethos 1 : Two Civil Religions 91 Chapter 4 The American Ethos 2 : America ...
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... ideological despite drawing its discourse from scientific theory . Indeed , political authority , failing to carry its rational virtues into social decision making , is only fashioned after scientific authority . The juxtaposition of ...
... ideological despite drawing its discourse from scientific theory . Indeed , political authority , failing to carry its rational virtues into social decision making , is only fashioned after scientific authority . The juxtaposition of ...
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... ideology and action is tenuous at best : whether one is the cause of the other , or whether both are expressions of more fundamental forces , or even whether avowed justifications are the true motives of com- petitive groups . Political ...
... ideology and action is tenuous at best : whether one is the cause of the other , or whether both are expressions of more fundamental forces , or even whether avowed justifications are the true motives of com- petitive groups . Political ...
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... ideologies , each has been available as inspiration for political rivals through contemporary times . Each is a ... ideological confusion that demands a political discourse in the terms of the Enlightenment but actu- ally adheres to ...
... ideologies , each has been available as inspiration for political rivals through contemporary times . Each is a ... ideological confusion that demands a political discourse in the terms of the Enlightenment but actu- ally adheres to ...
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... ideological interpretation . Still , the emptiness of the personal social services that provide less countable benefits , if benefits at all , better disclose the unanchored immaterialism of social preferences and the pervasively ...
... ideological interpretation . Still , the emptiness of the personal social services that provide less countable benefits , if benefits at all , better disclose the unanchored immaterialism of social preferences and the pervasively ...
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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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