Bureaucracy and World View

Studies in the Logic of Official Interpretation

By Don Handelman & Elliott Leyton
Categories: Health, Social Work & Psychology, Social Work
Series: Social and Economic Studies
Publisher: ISER Books
Hardcover : 9780919666153, 145 pages, January 1978

Description

Handelman studies several social workers' interpretation of the facts brought to their attention regarding a case of suspected child abuse, and the effects their perceptions had on their decision-making. Leyton examines the Workmen's Compensation Board and shows how clashes in world view cause conflicting interpretations of rules between officials administering compensation and the miners receiving it.