Words of Welfare

The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-08-03
Mått:150 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt:232 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:9780816625789
Utmärkelser:Words of Welfare

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.