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The Point of Social Construction and the Purpose of Social Critique

Social Epistemology, 2005
The papers in the following issues were conceived on a cool Pittsburgh evening, while the two editors sat out on a porch and discussed the state of technology studies and their dissatisfaction with...
Sterne, Jonathan, Leach, Joan
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Critique as Social Practice

2018
Can critical theory diagnose ideological delusion and false consciousness from above, or does it have to follow the practices of critique ordinary agents engage in? This book argues that we have to move beyond this dichotomy, which has led to a theoretical impasse.
Robin Celikates, Naomi van Steenbergen
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A Critique of Social Capital

International Journal of Health Services, 2002
This article critiques the concepts of communitarianism and social capital as used in the United States and in Europe. For the United States, the author focuses on Robert Putnam's understanding of both concepts, showing that the apolitical analysis of the Progressive Era, of the progressive developments in Northern Italy, and of the situation of labor ...
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Social Work as Social Critique

Australian Social Work, 1979
This paper argues that social work is defined less by any intrinsic qualities and more by its relationship to dominant values. This relationship, the paper argues, is a hierarchical one in which social work is a dutiful servant to the dominant values. This the paper calls the “service” function of social work.
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An outline of the social history of socialism or an auto-critique of an auto-critique

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2002
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to offer an outline of the history of changes in social structure during socialism and after the fall of communism. This ‘history’ is presented as an open one, which may have been pregnant at various time points with opportunities, which were not realized. I try to capture this ‘openness’ of the social history of
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SOCIAL SECURITY EVALUATION: A CRITIQUE

Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2005
I study the bias of actuarially fair measures commonly used to evaluate the impact of a social security system on the well-being of individuals. I investigate how the magnitude of this bias is affected by different features of a pay-as-you-go social security system.
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