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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... Choice 111 Chapter 5 The American Ethos 3 : Social Welfare Services as Rituals of the Civil Religion 135 Chapter 6 Two Romances : The Enlightenment and the Anti - Enlightenment 151 Chapter 7 Science , Limited Science , and Scientism 193 ...
... Choice 111 Chapter 5 The American Ethos 3 : Social Welfare Services as Rituals of the Civil Religion 135 Chapter 6 Two Romances : The Enlightenment and the Anti - Enlightenment 151 Chapter 7 Science , Limited Science , and Scientism 193 ...
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... social welfare arrangements are actually effective or at least promising ... choice . The United States has characteristically resisted redistributive ... social sciences along with the university itself . Any challenge to the orthodoxy ...
... social welfare arrangements are actually effective or at least promising ... choice . The United States has characteristically resisted redistributive ... social sciences along with the university itself . Any challenge to the orthodoxy ...
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... social problems as well as resistance to change are more the products of human choice and tradition than monuments to an ineluctable physics of social life . In contrast , exploration is impeded by the absence of pres- sure to extend ...
... social problems as well as resistance to change are more the products of human choice and tradition than monuments to an ineluctable physics of social life . In contrast , exploration is impeded by the absence of pres- sure to extend ...
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... social ethos that sanctions its operations , the social welfare enterprise ... choice is mystical , largely unexplained except after the fact . Out of the ... social tenden- cies of rebarbative , fractured cultures . The supremacy of X Preface.
... social ethos that sanctions its operations , the social welfare enterprise ... choice is mystical , largely unexplained except after the fact . Out of the ... social tenden- cies of rebarbative , fractured cultures . The supremacy of X Preface.
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... social restraint on the notion of absolute ideal- ism ( or perhaps as ... social visions . As polar ideologies , each has been available as inspiration for ... choice and realistic thinking play in human action " ( Aiken 1956 , 204 ...
... social restraint on the notion of absolute ideal- ism ( or perhaps as ... social visions . As polar ideologies , each has been available as inspiration for ... choice and realistic thinking play in human action " ( Aiken 1956 , 204 ...
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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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