Words Of Welfare The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty
Heftet /
1995
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780816625789
Publisert
1995-08-03
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Minnesota Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
149 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Sanford Schram is associate professor of political science at Macalester College and has worked with various community groups over the past two decades to promote social science research that serves ordinary people rather than just policy makers. He has written numerous articles on poverty and social science research methods.
Offers an important and enlightening critique of how welfare policy is analyzed and set in the U.S., illustrating that how we study issues affects what ultimately gets done about them. Issues examined include the drawing of the poverty line, the setting of benefit levels, the feminization of poverty, homelessness, the underclass, welfare dependency, recent attempts to reform welfare, and the implications for welfare in the emerging global, postindustrial economy. Schram demonstrates how research on these issues can be done differently and more effectively.
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It has been suggested that policy analysis has come to serve the needs of the state at the expense of the citizens. This book offers a critique of how welfare policy is analyzed and set in the USA, illustrating that how we study issues affects what ultimately gets done about them.
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Interrogations: suffer in silence - the subtext of social policy research; discourses of dependency - the politics of euphimisms; inverting political economy: perspective, position, and discourse in the analysis of welfare. Demonstrations: bottom-up discourse - narrating the privatization of public assistance; home economists as the real economists; rewriting social policy history. Applications: the real uses of a false dichotomy - symbols at the expense of substance in welfare reform; the feminization of poverty - from statistical artifact to established policy; waltzing with the rapper - industrial welfare policy meets post-industril poverty.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780816625789
Publisert
1995-08-03
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Minnesota Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
149 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Sanford Schram is associate professor of political science at Macalester College and has worked with various community groups over the past two decades to promote social science research that serves ordinary people rather than just policy makers. He has written numerous articles on poverty and social science research methods.