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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... minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , ANSI / NISO Z39.48-1992 . Contents Preface Acknowledgments vii xix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Political.
... minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , ANSI / NISO Z39.48-1992 . Contents Preface Acknowledgments vii xix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Political.
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... political conundrums . The cere- monial civil religion of feast , holiday , and patriotic pomp translates the nation's policy preferences - its operative civil religion - into the tran- scendent language of chosenness . Political ...
... political conundrums . The cere- monial civil religion of feast , holiday , and patriotic pomp translates the nation's policy preferences - its operative civil religion - into the tran- scendent language of chosenness . Political ...
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... political stakes and crippling methodological pitfalls . The alternative to the winning strategy of substituting better for good is to loosen the society's grip on its institutions to stimulate the explo- ration of uncertain futures ...
... political stakes and crippling methodological pitfalls . The alternative to the winning strategy of substituting better for good is to loosen the society's grip on its institutions to stimulate the explo- ration of uncertain futures ...
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... political will to acknowledge a problem . In this case the prob- lem is not simply the deprivations of many citizens but the absence of social institutions sensitive to their needs and a misguided set of political priorities . The ...
... political will to acknowledge a problem . In this case the prob- lem is not simply the deprivations of many citizens but the absence of social institutions sensitive to their needs and a misguided set of political priorities . The ...
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... political discourse in the terms of the Enlightenment but actu- ally adheres to Romantic impulses and ideals . The politics of the nation reverberate with the Fourth of July fireworks of democratic decision making and social equality ...
... political discourse in the terms of the Enlightenment but actu- ally adheres to Romantic impulses and ideals . The politics of the nation reverberate with the Fourth of July fireworks of democratic decision making and social equality ...
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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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