Praxis for the Poor: Piven and Cloward and the Future of Social Science in Social Welfare

Author:   Sanford F. Schram
Publisher:   New York University Press
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9780814798171


Pages:   303
Publication Date:   01 November 2002
Format:   Hardback
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Praxis for the Poor: Piven and Cloward and the Future of Social Science in Social Welfare


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Author:   Sanford F. Schram
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780814798171


ISBN 10:   0814798179
Pages:   303
Publication Date:   01 November 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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<p> Schram poses an important challenge for those who would like to restore to political science its sometime concern with power and inequality.


This wonderfully lucid, well developed volume should perhaps have been called Suggested Praxis for the Poor, since, instead of describing the current state of welfare, the author argues for a revamped praxis that would rescue our failing programs .Highly recommended. - Library Journal ,


<p> Schram poses an important challenge for those who would like to restore to political science its sometime concern with power and inequality. - American Politics Book Review ,


(<p> Schram poses an important challenge for those who would like to restore to political science its sometime concern with power and inequality. )-( American Politics Book Review ), ()


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Sanford F. Schram teaches social theory and social policy in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College where he also teaches research methods for undergraduate political science majors. He is the author of several books including Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty which won the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association and Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance, and Globalization.

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