ABSTRACT
Aliki Coudroglou (1995), in a book review titled “The Elusive Human Rights,” makes several important points regarding the ways American society handles social problems. Some of these points are quite useful as contextual background for this piece. Coudroglou informs us that:
Despite decades of social policy revisions, our society remains unable to deal effectively with social problems;
Even as the era of the “global village”—to use a phrase that has become commonplace—dawns, the United States has embarked on yet another internal confrontation;
This society espouses social contracts while dismantling social institutions;
Despite new understanding of the need to “eradicate” human suffering, social policies in this country, paradoxically, have not changed to fit such need.
