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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... outcomes . Thus , the focus of the study relates far more importantly to issues of American stratification than simply to the prob- lems of indigent people . The debate over public assistance for the poor is usually fierce , truly out ...
... outcomes . Thus , the focus of the study relates far more importantly to issues of American stratification than simply to the prob- lems of indigent people . The debate over public assistance for the poor is usually fierce , truly out ...
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... outcomes , and the effects of policy options . The struggle over limited resources between partisans confident in their virtue irresistibly distorts the highly circumscribed theories of the social and natural sciences into political ...
... outcomes , and the effects of policy options . The struggle over limited resources between partisans confident in their virtue irresistibly distorts the highly circumscribed theories of the social and natural sciences into political ...
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... outcomes such as crime , mental and physical disease , political turmoil , and so forth ; the second , to demonstrate that the outcomes or conditions are socially problematic . If the proven relationships are to be truly rational , then ...
... outcomes such as crime , mental and physical disease , political turmoil , and so forth ; the second , to demonstrate that the outcomes or conditions are socially problematic . If the proven relationships are to be truly rational , then ...
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... outcomes or to describe the moral contingencies of those who engage in socially problematic behaviors . The mutual adjustment of political fac- tions remains fiercely ideological , unanchored by any tested insights into the causes of ...
... outcomes or to describe the moral contingencies of those who engage in socially problematic behaviors . The mutual adjustment of political fac- tions remains fiercely ideological , unanchored by any tested insights into the causes of ...
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... outcomes — not even the measurement of income and social stagnation at the core of the issue - is grounded in credible information . Politics , Ideology , and Social Services Social policy is a course of action sanctioned by society ...
... outcomes — not even the measurement of income and social stagnation at the core of the issue - is grounded in credible information . Politics , Ideology , and Social Services Social policy is a course of action sanctioned by society ...
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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