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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... objective reality was rejected by the anti - Enlightenment as an unnecessary restraint on human ambition . The will was a causative agent with nearly limitless possibilities . Nonetheless , allowing the assumptions of their own systems ...
... objective reality was rejected by the anti - Enlightenment as an unnecessary restraint on human ambition . The will was a causative agent with nearly limitless possibilities . Nonetheless , allowing the assumptions of their own systems ...
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... objective methodology . The philosophes wrote history and philosophy ; they rarely engaged in science . Aside from a nascent push for education - both schooling and preparation for citi- zenship — and broad principles for government and ...
... objective methodology . The philosophes wrote history and philosophy ; they rarely engaged in science . Aside from a nascent push for education - both schooling and preparation for citi- zenship — and broad principles for government and ...
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... objective or coherent practice of rationality , that is , science . If the Enlightenment experiment is to succeed beyond the startling material plenty of the United States , it still needs to nurture rationality in social decision ...
... objective or coherent practice of rationality , that is , science . If the Enlightenment experiment is to succeed beyond the startling material plenty of the United States , it still needs to nurture rationality in social decision ...
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... objective conditions , whether moral or structural , are the causes of defined outcomes such as crime , mental and physical disease , political turmoil , and so forth ; the second , to demonstrate that the outcomes or conditions are ...
... objective conditions , whether moral or structural , are the causes of defined outcomes such as crime , mental and physical disease , political turmoil , and so forth ; the second , to demonstrate that the outcomes or conditions are ...
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... objective proof but not to social authority ; ideology is doctrinaire and authoritarian . Both the products and the conduct of sci- ence , by conferring enormous economic and social advantages , often undercut established political ...
... objective proof but not to social authority ; ideology is doctrinaire and authoritarian . Both the products and the conduct of sci- ence , by conferring enormous economic and social advantages , often undercut established political ...
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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