Missing persons : a critique of the social sciences /

The western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation of material things, and a failure of just distribution. Douglas and Ney argue that the tradition of individualism applied to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Douglas, Mary
Other Authors: Ney, Steven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1998.
Series:Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy ; 1.
Subjects:
Poverty > History.
Poor.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Welfare economics.
Poverty.
Poverty
Pauvreté > Histoire.
Pauvreté.
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
Économie du bien-être.
Pauvres.
poverty.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Absent Persons in the Social Sciences
  • The Strong Presence of Homo OEconomicus
  • Communication Needs of Social Beings
  • For a Concept of the Whole Person
  • Four Whole Persons
  • Persons in the Policy Process
  • The Adversarial Mode
  • Shackled by Institutions
  • Homo OEconomicus: A Way of Saying Nothing.

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