This working paper provides an overview of the theoretical
battles that have raged across the terrain of modern systems of
social provision and regulation—the “modern welfare
state.” Orloff makes the case that we could use some fraternization
(that is, greater theo-retical engagement) across the battle lines,
and that feminist work provides an admirable example of theoretical
hybridity, drawing on the significant theoretical resources associated
with Weberian, Foucauldian, culturalist, and Marxist analytic
traditions. She also argues that we need to break more fully with
the analytic baggage associated with social determinism.
Ann Shola Orloff, Sociology
and Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
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