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The rise of the therapeutic state /
Assuming that ""marginal"" citizens cannot govern their own lives, proponents of the therapeutic state urge casework intervention to reshape the attitudes and behaviors of those who live outside the social mainstream. Thus the victims of poverty, delinquency, family violence, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1991.
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| Colección: | City in the twenty-first century book series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Assuming that ""marginal"" citizens cannot govern their own lives, proponents of the therapeutic state urge casework intervention to reshape the attitudes and behaviors of those who live outside the social mainstream. Thus the victims of poverty, delinquency, family violence, and other problems are to be ""normalized."" But ""normalize, "" to Andrew Polsky, is a term that ""jars the ear, as well it should when we consider what this effort is all about."" Here he investigates the broad network of public agencies that adopt the casework approach. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-281) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1400813018 9781400813018 9781400820627 1400820626 1282751522 9781282751521 9786612751523 6612751525 |