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

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Addams, Jane: and African-Americans, 250n. 9; on antagonism, 46–47; bottom -up approach, 4–5, 24, 34, 113; on citizenship education vs. character education , 38; and cosmopolitanism, 38; democratic rights vs. relationships, 39–41; and Dewey, 251n. 32; and feminism , 33–35; on local and global connected , 39; and M. Carey Thomas prize, 46; and Nobel prize, 33, 46; in contrast with Piven and Cloward on dissent, 47; and pragmatism, 38–39; and priority to practice, 37; on George Pullman as a “modern Lear,” 44; on “us” and “them” as related, 41 Advocacy: and global social justice, 239–240; on race in welfare, 180–182; and social science, 4–6, 29–30, 132–134 Agitation from below, 96–100, 233–236 AidtoFamilieswithDependentChildren (AFDC):asassistanceforchildren,95; andendofentitlement,1,54,141;and entryandexitrates,195–196;andexit duetoemployment,198;andincreased statediscretionunderTANF,141,209;repudiatedasencouragingdepedency ,191 American dream, 174 American Sociological Association, and report on Brandeis Universityís tenure decision concerning Richard Cloward, 104 Analysis paralysis, 130 Antagonism, 46–47 Aronowitz, Stanley: and critique of Piven and Cloward’s electoral strategy, 105; on social science and the state, 61 Assuming the best: as conservative discourse , 248n. 28; as counterdiscourse, 24–26 Assuming the worst, 25–26 Backlash, 87 Baldwin, James, 174 Basic Books, and public discourse, 247n. 5 Bernstein, Richard, 245n. 9, 246n. 10 Best practices, 119–123 Bhabha, Homi, on anxiety of signification , 35 Bifurcated welfare state, 77–78, 182 Big bang theory of welfare state growth, 96–100 bin Laden, Osama, 238 Biopower, 82, 229 Blackface and assimilation, 173 Block, Fred, on the perversity thesis, 22 Boisjoly, Johanne, 170 291 Index Bottom-up approach, vs. top-down approach : and affinities between Jane Addams and Piven and Cloward, 4–5, 24; as basic to settlement, 34; and contrast between Piven and Cloward and Daniel Moynihan and David Ellwood , 65; and research, 109; and research in Jane Addams’s work, 113; and research in Piven and Cloward’s work, 128; as resistance to globalization , 234–235 Bourne, Randolph, on Jane Addams, 252n. 57 Brandeis University, 104 Breadwinner, 182, 205 Brief treatment, 122 Brown, Wendy, criticism of Piven and Cloward, 68, 80, 105 Bryn Mawr College, 46 Bush, George W., 236, 238 Calligram, 278n. 51 Campbell, Nancy, 224, 286n. 47 Case advocacy vs. policy advocacy, 95 Caseload declines: and debate over cause for the decrease, 145; and diversion, 194–197; and the economy, 145, 271n. 20; and end of welfare gridlock since the 60s, 55–56; and state policy options under TANF, 144–49 Charitable choice option, 141 Charitable effort, 41–45 Cheney, Dick, 238 Chicago School of Sociology, 33 Child support, 95 “Children,” as a middle class appeal, 30 Chong, Dennis, 189 Citizenship education vs. character education , 38 Civil rights movement, 78 Class-based appeals, 13, 212 Classical liberal economic theory, 23, 212–213 Clawson, Rosalee, 276–277n. 35 Clinton, Bill: and “end welfare as we know it,” 1; and failed health plan, 12; and welfare reform, 63–64, 187 Cloward, Richard, 49, 104; critique of research elitism in social work, 115–117. See also Piven and Cloward Cold War, and end of communism, 56 Columbia University School of Social Work, 117 Common frame of reference, and welfare reporting, 189 Community Action Program, 81 Comparative analysis, 24–25 Comprehensive policymaking, 101 Conflict theory, 91–92 Connolly, Laura, on economy and caseload declines, 271n. 20 Connolly, William: on politics of becoming , 35; on theatricality of power, 238–239 Conservative welfare policy, as self-fulfilling prophecy, 25 Contingency, 106–107, 111–112 Contradiction, in welfare, 80, 88–93 Coontz, Stephanie, 219 Corporate attack on welfare, 191 Corporate fraud, in welfare reform, 194 Cosmopolitan neighbors, and multiculturalism in Jane Addams, 38 Counterdiscourse, 24–26 Crenson, Matthew: on children as legitimation for welfare, 95; on historical institutionalism , 98–99; on orphanages as precursor to the modern welfare state, 96–99 Crisis Strategy, 50–51, 57, 65–70 292 | Appendix Critical connectedness, 248. See also Global methods Critical distance, 28–29. See also Critical connectedness Cruikshank, Barbara: and social control vs. self-discipline, 264n. 155; and will to empower “the poor,” 80–83 Cultural values, and welfare, 201–202, 217–221 Cycle of representation, 278n. 51 Cyclical theories of welfare change, 87–95 Danziger, Sheldon, 16 Davis, Elizabeth, 271n. 20 de Man, Paul, on reading as an act of supplementation, 177 Dean, Mitchell, 230 Dehli, Kari, 222 Deleuze, Gilles, 230 Democratic justice, 34–37 Democratic rights...