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Choice against Choice : Constructing a Policy-assessing Sociology for Social Development
author
:
Freeman, David M.
publisher
:
University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin
:
0870812378
print isbn13
:
9780870812378
ebook isbn13
:
9780585004402
language
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English
subject
Social policy--Valuation, Social values, Social choice, Technology assessment.
publication date
:
1992
lcc
:
HN28.F68 1992eb
ddc
:
361.6/1
subject
:
Social policy--Valuation, Social values, Social choice, Technology assessment.
Page iii
Choice Against Choice
Constructing a Policy-Assessing Sociology for Social Development
David M. Freeman
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
Page iv
Copyright 1992 by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849
Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Freeman, David M.
Choice against choice: constructing a policy-assessing sociology for social development / David M. Freeman.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-87081-237-8 (alk. paper)
1. Social policy Valuation. 2. Social values. 3. Social choice. 4. Technology assessment. I. Title.
HN28.F68 1992
361.6'1 dc20
91-40379
CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481984
Page v
To Sandra
''For, having such a blessing in his lady, He finds the joys of heaven here on earth."
William Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice Act III, Scene V
Page vii
Contents
List of Tables
xiii
List of Figures
xv
Preface
xvii
Acknowledgments
xxiii
I. THE CHALLENGE OF POLICY ASSESSMENT
1
Social Development Policy and the Public Household
5
Technological Change and the Problem of Welfare Transfer
13
The Problem of Knowing What ''Is" Nomothetic Theory in an Idiographic World
18
The Problem of Knowing What Ought Logics of Valuation in a Value-Relativistic World
23
Conclusion
27
II. SOCIAL POLICY ASSESSMENT: THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM
30
History of the Valuational Debate
30
The Eighteenth-Century Moral Problem
30
Nineteenth-Century Enthusiasm
34
Fading Hopes of the Early Twentieth Century
39
The Twentieth-Century Valuational Collapse
44
The Twentieth-Century Valuational Antagonism
47
Valuation and the Pure Science Orientation
47
Valuation and the Applied Science Orientation
50
Valuation and the Critical Theory Orientation
56
Conclusion
63
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III. VALUATION FOR POLICY ASSESSMENT: PROBLEMS IN ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY
65
Policy Assessment: Economics and the Normative Failure of Markets
65
Concentration of Power and Erosion of Consumer Sovereignty
67
Technological Externality
70
Public Goods
72
Tyranny of Small Decisions and Freezing of Decision-Makers
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