Protecting the Elderly: How Culture Shapes Social Policy

by Charles Lockhart

Building on the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, this book develops and applies "grid-group" theory to show how political culture can be used to explain decisions about social policy and how, as an interpretive approach, this theory complements the now more dominant "rational choice" and "institutionalist" models.

In Part One, Lockhart elaborates on the basic ideas involved in grid-group...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271022892
• ISBN13: 9780271022895
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"