The Encyclopedia
of World Problems
& Human Potential

Official disregard for people as human beings

Name(s):

Government disregard for individuals

Impersonality of bureaucracy

Nature

The inflexible traditional bureaucracy of social care services limits both the accessibility of services and the coverage of people's needs. There is a lack of creative exchange and a narrow range of alternatives in the political process, and the individual is no longer able to control his access to services, nor is there consensus on the maintaining of systems of access.

Incidence

Social and governmental agencies often equate progress in dealing with social problems with more efficient handling of data. More and more time is spent with internal communications and less and less with those the agency is to be serving.

Broader

Grievances of citizens

Unsolved social problems

Inadequate political networks

Complicity with structural injustice

Reduces

Overemphasis on individual rights

Aggravates

Social inaccessibility

Unbridled individualism ^{[in 17 loops]}

Unsympathetic token services

Thwarted community enthusiasm ^{[in 1 loop]}

Denial of right to develop as human beings

Excessive waiting times in government facilities

Placement of the burden of proof on the disempowered ^{[in 1 loop]}

Ineffective delivery of basic human resource services ^{[in 2 loops]}

Misrepresentation of self-sufficiency as socially responsible

Aggravated by

Marxism

Inefficient public administration

Proliferation of public sector institutions

Lack of individualism in capitalist systems

Strategy(ies)

Requiring social service bureaucracy

Appreciating people as human beings

Personalizing bureaucracy

Value(s)

Type

(D) Detailed problems

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