#15---The Radical Model

These writing assignments are meant to help you think about the readings and to prepare you for class discussions. For that reason, when you write a response it is important that you give your opinions and that you relate your thoughts to the reading. Remember that these are exam questions and that they are graded as such. You ought to write them as though you are writing questions on a midterm or a final exam.

Respond to one of the following questions by writing a response on the class Discussion Board on Blackboard at least one hour before class on the date the question is listed. Put your name in the text of the question and give the question number as listed below. Without these I can't tell who wrote the question or what you are responding to. You then have until Midnight on the following Sunday of that week to revise your response if you wish to do so and to submit it for grading. To submit your responses, send them via email to milofsky@bucknell.edu.

Your final version of this question is due by midnight, Sunday, October 25.

15-1. Why does the presumption that society is organized around a class cleavage mean that the market model is inaccurate and inappropriate for understanding society?

15-2. Why from the radical perspective do human services exist?

15-3. If elites support human services to stabilize society, then the removal or reduction of human services ought to destabilize society. Since human services have been reduced in the last ten or fifteen years and we do not see active political opposition movements, does that mean that the radical prediction is incorrect?

15-4. What evidence can you give that the way the radical model depicts human services in American society accurately describes those services?