Choice Against Choice

Constructing a Policy-assessing Sociology for Social Development

• Author(s): David M. Freeman,
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Pages: 365
• ISBN_10: 0870812378
  ISBN_13: 9780870812378
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare , Psychology / Social Psychology , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... The challenge of policy assessment; Social policy assessment: the historical problem; Valuation for policy assessment: problems in economics and sociology; Valuation for policy assessment: problems with contemporary value criteria; Response to the policy-assessment challenge: assessing social development policy with logics of fact and value; Policy assessment for development: a science of fact and a logic of value in the domain of social conflict; Social policy assessment; Implications.