THE SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC BASE OF ACADEMIC RADICALISM

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This paper subjects to critical scrutiny the critique by Stephen and Joan Baratz of the ‘social pathology model’ as the social scientific base that authorizes interventionist social action programs. It is argued that their critique, which has been an important contribution to the attack on ‘deficit theory’, Jails to provide an adequate clarification of the relationship between the social science enterprise and policy decision‐making. The result is that the appeal of the alternatives, in both research and policy, proposed by the Baratz rests upon a superficial and uncritical examination of a range of more fundamental issues.

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