Foundations of Social Administration by Helmuth Heisler (eds.)

By Helmuth Heisler (eds.)

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Voluntary effort in the study of poverty was the first mainspring of social intelligence. During modern wars the usefulness of intelligence became manifest and it has grown in prestige among those organisations that are determined to increase their own effectiveness in society. Now public authorities, whose scale of operations have expanded vastly since the Second World War, are engendering an imminent revolution in social intelligence in their roles of sponsors of this activity and as critical objects worthy of investigation.

Alongside social accounting, the most important intelligence resource should be the public administrators, whose actions it is hoped might be guided by knowledge as much as expediency. After all they are appointed in part by virtue of their education and training. Ideally, they bring two qualities to their work. One is the cultivation of the habit of agnosticism exercised in relation to the results of researches undertaken by others and which require evaluation - even if this process leads to a cheerless conclusion such as that 'the precise investigation into questions of social pathology has been to undermine the credibility of virtually all the current myths'.

Dimensions of Social Administration 17 Welfare and a consensually ordered society are abnormal conditions, and Parsons has been criticised severely for assuming the former in his theoretical work. Though normative functionalism has fallen into disrepute as a result of this defect, this does not mean that all elements of this theory, which might provide social administration with a distinct and convenient identity, need be abandoned. A more realistic theory of functionalism has emerged and a more realisHc theory of integration can be deduced from it.

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