| Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care Contributor(s): Swartz, Teresa Toguchi (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415972612 ISBN-13: 9780415972611 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system. The author concludes that the problems of the system result less from uncommitted service providers, and more from the competing cultural rationales and complex bureaucratic environment that set the context under which care is administered. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Political Science | American Government - State - Social Science | Social Work |
| Dewey: 362.733 |
| LCCN: 2004030628 |
| Series: New Approaches in Sociology: Studies in Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Justice |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.1" W x 9.38" (0.90 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system. |
