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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... Yet broadly popular Ameri- can social welfare policy fails to address widespread need . In part , the acceptance of inadequate social policy is facilitated by the corrective myths of the social sciences , the little lies of vii Preface.
... Yet broadly popular Ameri- can social welfare policy fails to address widespread need . In part , the acceptance of inadequate social policy is facilitated by the corrective myths of the social sciences , the little lies of vii Preface.
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Welfare as Ritual William M. Epstein. myths of the social sciences , the little lies of program evaluations that social welfare arrangements are actually effective or at least promising leads , important beginnings , and steps in the ...
Welfare as Ritual William M. Epstein. myths of the social sciences , the little lies of program evaluations that social welfare arrangements are actually effective or at least promising leads , important beginnings , and steps in the ...
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... myths of the social sciences - the broad refusal of the nation's intellectuals to acknowledge the failure of these programs - figure in a mystical cultural decision to deny remedy for social inequalities . Nonetheless , Romantic ...
... myths of the social sciences - the broad refusal of the nation's intellectuals to acknowledge the failure of these programs - figure in a mystical cultural decision to deny remedy for social inequalities . Nonetheless , Romantic ...
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... myth of self - determination . Notably powerful in America , metaphors of indi- viduality and personal autonomy may explain the nation's attachment to an extreme credo of personal as opposed to social responsibility . Among modern ...
... myth of self - determination . Notably powerful in America , metaphors of indi- viduality and personal autonomy may explain the nation's attachment to an extreme credo of personal as opposed to social responsibility . Among modern ...
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... myth . It is no surprise that throughout a society that cherishes material pos- sessions and economic success , market differences are carried over into the provision of human services whether supplied publicly or purchased through ...
... myth . It is no surprise that throughout a society that cherishes material pos- sessions and economic success , market differences are carried over into the provision of human services whether supplied publicly or purchased through ...
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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237 | |
About the Author | |
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