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Deserving and entitled : social constructions and public policy

Title
Deserving and entitled : social constructions and public policy / edited by Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Schneider, Anne L.
  • Ingram, Helen M., 1937-
Description
xiii, 371 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
SUNY series in public policy
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Public policy and the social construction of deservedness / Helen M. Ingram, Anne L. Schneider -- PART I. HISTORICAL ROOTS OF CONSTRUCTIONS OF DERSERVEDNESS AND ENTITLEMENT -- Constructing and entitling America's original veterans / Laura S. Jensen -- Constructing the democratic citizen: idiocy and insanity in American suffrage law / Kay Schriner -- From 'problem minority' to 'model minority': the changing social construction of Japanese Americans / Stephanie J. DiAlto -- PART II. CONGRESSIONAL DISCOURSE: FORGING LINES OF DIVISION BETWEEN DESERVING AND UNDESERVING -- Contested images of race and place: the politics of housing discrimination / Mara S. Sidney -- 'It is not a question of being anti-immigration': categories of deservedness in immigration policy making / Lina Newton -- PART III. NONPROFITS, NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DESERVEDNESS -- The construction of client identities in a post-welfare social service program: the double bind of microenterprise development / Nancy Jurik, Julie Cowgill -- Deservedness in poor neighborhoods: a morality struggle / Michelle Camou -- PART IV. CONSTRUCTIONS BY MORAL ENTREPRENEURS AND POLICY ANALYSTS -- From perception to public policy: translating social constructions into policy designs / Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Kenneth J. Meier -- Jezebels, matriarchs, and welfare queens: the Moynihan Report of 1965 and the social construction of African-American women in welfare policy / Dionne Bensonsmith -- Putting a black face on welfare: the good and the bad / Sanford F. Schram -- PART V. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS, IDENTITY, CITIZENSHIP, AND PARTICIPATION -- Making clients and citizens: welfare policy as a source of status, belief, and action / Joe Soss.
Call Number
JFE 05-4857
ISBN
  • 0791463419 (alk. paper)
  • 0791463427 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004044245
OCLC
54669990
Title
Deserving and entitled : social constructions and public policy / edited by Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram.
Imprint
Albany : State University of New York, c2005.
Series
SUNY series in public policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Schneider, Anne L.
Ingram, Helen M., 1937-
Research Call Number
JFE 05-4857
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