Deserving and Entitled : Social Constructions and Public Policy

by Schneider, Anne L.; Ingram, Helen M.; Ingram Helen M.

• ISBN13: 9780791463413
• ISBN10: 0791463419
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-06
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Helen M. Ingram is Professor of Social Ecology and Drew Chace, and Erin Warmington Chair in the Social Ecology of Peace and International Cooperation at the University of California at Irvine.

Author Biography

Helen M. Ingram is Professor of Social Ecology and Drew Chace, and Erin Warmington Chair in the Social Ecology of Peace and International Cooperation at the University of California at Irvine.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction : public policy and the social construction of deservedness	p. 1
Constructing and entitling America's original veterans	p. 35
Constructing the democratic citizen : idiocy and insanity in American suffrage law	p. 63
From "problem minority" to "model minority" : the changing social construction of Japanese Americans	p. 81
Contested images of race and place : the politics of housing discrimination	p. 111
"It is not a question of being anti-immigration" : categories of deservedness in immigration policy making	p. 139
The construction of client identities in a post-welfare social service program : the double bind of microenterprise development	p. 173
Deservedness in poor neighborhoods : a morality struggle	p. 197
From perception to public policy : translating social constructions into policy designs	p. 223
Jezebels, matriarchs, and welfare queens : the Moynihan report of 1965 and the social construction of African-American women in welfare policy	p. 243
Putting a black face on welfare : the good and the bad	p. 261
Making clients and citizens : welfare policy as a source of status, belief, and action	p. 291
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