Welfare-state humanitarianism and system-maintenance imperatives are institutionally fused, not opposed.

Evidence

It seems apparent that American street-level bureaucracies must be understood as organizational embodiments of contradictory tendencies in American society as a whole. The welfare state calls for and requires .social programs to ameliorate the neglect and insecurity of the economic system, to prepare people for roles in the economy, or to manage their deviation from expectations of appropriate behavior. In the ideology of the welfare state humanitarian impulses are coincident with the requirements of system maintenance. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1314

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s goal of tracing how administrative structures embed contradictory cultural mandates over time.