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Social Policy and the Discipline of Social Administration
Author(s) -
Mishra Ramesh
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9515.1986.tb00244.x
Subject(s) - normative , generality , scrutiny , ideology , sociology , positive economics , social policy , value (mathematics) , administration (probate law) , subject (documents) , political science , epistemology , social science , law , psychology , politics , economics , philosophy , machine learning , library science , computer science , psychotherapist
The last ten years have seen a spate of books analysing social policy in terms of ideologies or models of welfare. These models, which combine an explanatory or scientific and a normative or value component, offer the discipline of social administration a terrain or base of its own from which it can legitimately explore a range of normative and scientific issues. It is suggested that the central task of social policy analysis, at the highest level of generality of the discipline, is to tease out the relevant normative and factual propositions or assumptions underlying these models and subject them to close scrutiny. In this the discipline would largely be following, but also extending somewhat, the agenda for social administration outlined by Richard Titmuss in 1968.