Whose Keeper?: Social Science and Moral ObligationWhose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the United States and Scandinavia, have broken with traditional sources of mortality and instead have relied upon economic and political frameworks to define their obligations to one another. Wolfe calls for reinvigorating a sense of community and thus a sense of obligation to the larger society. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Withering Away of Civil Society | 13 |
Inward and Outward | 19 |
Market | 27 |
List of Tables | 41 |
Markets and Intimate Obligations | 51 |
Married Women in the Labor Force United States 194085 | 55 |
Estimated Home Mortgage and Consumer Installment Debt | 64 |
Family Welfare Expenditures Scandinavia 195984 | 139 |
Relations in Civil Society Denmark 190686 | 145 |
Breaking and Entering Scandinavia 195080 | 149 |
States and Distant Obligations | 159 |
Living Arrangements of the Elderly Scandinavia 195480 | 165 |
Voluntary Contributions and State Subsidy Selected Scandinavian Charities 198086 | 171 |
Voluntary Activities Denmark 197686 | 172 |
Shadow Economy as Percentage of GNP Selected Countries 196080 | 175 |
Private School Enrollments United States 196583 | 71 |
Markets and Distant Obligations | 78 |
Families Below the Poverty Line United States 196985 | 81 |
Service Payments United States 197586 64 | 86 |
Individual Giving United States 196085 | 88 |
American Red Cross Chapters and Volunteers 196584 | 91 |
Corporate Giving United States 196085 | 92 |
State | 107 |
Welfare States and Moral Regulation | 132 |
Places in DayCare Institutions Scandinavia 197584 | 138 |
Society | 187 |
The Social Construction of Morality | 212 |
The Gift of Society | 237 |
Citizens of Selected Foreign Countries Scandinavia 197885 | 248 |
Waiting Lists Selected Surgical Procedures Denmark 198385 | 253 |
Notes | 263 |
Bibliography | 315 |
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