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02602aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 0BEB541271B711EB8A4F4B2E3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210218010021 008 200203s2021 cau b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1503611922 020 $a 9781503611924 020 $a 1503614158 020 $a 9781503614154 035 $a (OCoLC)1138673126 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d FIE $d YDXIT $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a JC575 $b .J33 2021 082 04 $a 320.01/1 $2 23 100 1 $a Jackson, Michelle, $e author. 245 10 $a Manifesto for a dream : $b inequality, constraint, and radical reform / $c Michelle Jackson. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xiv, 175 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United States has an inequality problem, the social science community has failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead adopted a strikingly insipid approach to policy reform, an ostensibly science-based approach that offers incremental, narrow-gauge, and evidence-informed "interventions." This approach assumes that the best that we can do is to contain the problem. It is largely taken for granted that we will never solve it. In Manifesto for a Dream Michelle Jackson asserts that we will never make strides toward equality if we do not start to think radically. It is the structure of social institutions that generates and maintains social inequality, and it is only by attacking that structure that progress can be made. Jackson makes a scientific case for large-scale institutional reform, drawing on examples from other countries to demonstrate that reforms that have been unthinkable in the United States are considered to be quite unproblematic in other contexts. She persuasively argues that an emboldened social science has an obligation to develop and test the radical policies that would be necessary for equality to be assured for all. -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Equality $x Sociological aspects. 650 0 $a Equality $z United States. 650 0 $a American Dream. 650 7 $a American Dream $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01738531 650 7 $a Equality $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00914456 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317015136.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0BEB541271B711EB8A4F4B2E3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search