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- Schroyer , T. and Foreword , T. W. Adorno . 1973 . The Jargon of Authenticity , London : RKP . The idiom of evaluation is a jargon or a mode of magical expression which fails to reveal the actual relation between language and its objective content It is an idiom which breaks the relation between language and truth by falling into an objectivism which conceals the difference between philosophical reflection and the reality of the object of reflection See xiii
- See Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare , Through a Glass Darkly , ( 2 Vols), ( AGPS Canberra , 1979 ).
- Offe , Claus and Habemas , Jurgen . 1977 . Legitimation Crisis , Boston : Beacon .
- Friedman , Milton . 1962 . Capitalism and Freedom , Chicago : Chicago University . See especially where once more the free market is called upon to play divine providence and harmonize the interests of each with the interests of all
- Such a political reading would stress the close links between the work of the so-called Bailey Committee and its two volume assessment of Australia's health and welfare system and the Baume Committee's study of evaluation. The Bailey Committee envisaged, e.g. that an important new area of Government funding for health and welfare would be in the planning and evaluation of welfare programmes and it called for an initial survey of what was already being done by way of evaluation. In this sense the Baume Committee is contextualised by the Bailey Committee which in turn is best seen politically as an expression of the Fraser Government's new federalism policy and the commitment to reductions in social welfare by withdrawing the Commonwealth Government from the field. For one critique of the Bailey Committee from within a more welfare-better welfare framework see ACOSS, Real Reform or a Sideways Shuffle? ( ACOSS , Sydney , 1977 ).
- Marcuse , H. 1964 . One Dimensional Man , 52 – 57 . London : Sphere . Welfare and social policy theorists remain ignorant perhaps for interested reasons of the contribution of first and second generation critical theoretical accounts of the Welfare State For the former see pp 178-193 and the latter eg N Poulantzas State Power Socialism Ideology and Social Policy Social Policy Welfare Politics in Australia Macmillan Melbourne 1979
- Held , D. 1980 . An Introduction to Critical Theory , London : Hutchinson . The so-called Frankfurt School provides a large element of modern critical theory which in this author's view ought to be indispensable reading for welfare workers A good introduction is
- The Committee sat between June, 1976 and November, 1976, and again for most of 1978. A total of nine Senators sat on the Committee and were assisted by Professor Stephen Leeder and a consultative committee including Colin Benjamin and Tony Wiseheart. Around 126 submissions were considered, some 20 public hearings were held and 120 witnesses heard. Its two volume report (the second volume included 7 papers by a number of experts) was publicly launched in mid-1979.
- Titmuss , R. 1958 . Essays on the “Welfare State” , London : Allen and Unwin . See H Wilensky and C Lebeaux Industrial Society and Social Welfare Harper NY 1958 The latter gave rise to the functionalist distinction between ‘residual’ and ‘institutional’ forms of welfare a conceptualisation which still informs so much contemporary social policy even as it fails to establish whether it relies on “prescriptive” or “descriptive” premises
- Rowse , Tim . 1977 . Australian Liberalism and National Character , Melbourne : Kibble Press . This argument with respect to liberalism in Australia is powerfully presented by
- Bryson , L. 1971 . The Views of Clients: What people think of Welfare Services . Through a Glass Darkly , 2 : 1 – 22 . See eg Power to the Poor Allen and Unwin London 1977 likewise assume no harmony of interest between welfare professionals and their clients
- Mitzman , A. 1976 . The Iron Cage , N.Y. : Oxford . For many welfare workers this argument may appear either incomprehensible or irrelevant Those who are interested should tum to Max Weber's critique of “the iron cage” of instrumental rationality A good beginning is See J Habermas Science and Technology as Ideology in Towards A Rational Society Heineman London 1973 technical reason substantive rationality which rationally interrogates means and ends
- Marcuse H. , One Dimensional Man , p. 121 .
- See Winch P. , The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy ( London , 1958 ) and Systematic Empiricism, by P. Willey, (Heath, Washington, 1979).
- The reader is referred here to the sort of morass which a self-respecting empiricist like Martin Rein gets into when he attempts, and let it be added, courageously attempts, to deal with the problem which empiricism invents of relating “factual” statements to ethical statements in the making of social policy.
- Marcuse H. , One Dimensional Man , p. 121 .
- It is well to remember that the father of utilitarianism, Bentham Jeremy , initiated the modem concern with welfare reforms, and he made much of the notion of a felicific calculus , a mode of measuring scientifically human happiness and welfare. He suggested in one of his shorter essays that monetary calculation might be of singular use in this respect.
- Bentham , J. , ed. 1951 . Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writing , Vol. 3 , London : Allen and Unwin .
- Adomo , T. 1973 . The Positivist Dispute In German Sociology , London : Heineman .
- Lasch , C. 1978 . Haven in a Heartless World , N.Y. : Basic Books . For an account of one example of this tendency see