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The Beauty of a Social Problem

Author : Walter Benn Michaels
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022621026X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty of a Social Problem written by Walter Benn Michaels and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertolt Brecht once worried that how we feel about the victims of a social problem can get in the way of the beauty and attraction of the problem itself. In this book, Walter Benn Michaels explores the same dilemma through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy. Michaels focuses on the work of several artists, mostly born in the 1970s and thus raised in a world where artistic ambition has been identified with a critique of autonomous form and of meaning as a function of intention. Michaels shows that these artists engage but also push beyond this critique of autonomy and intentionality, producing works that embody a new commitment to form and meaning. The explanation for this commitment, he argues, is these artists consciousness of making art in an economy riven by structural conflict, especially an unprecedented rise in inequality. For them, he argues, the relationship of the art work to the worldto its subject and to its beholderfunctions as an emblem of the relation between classes (rather than identities or subject positions). This book will join the short shelf of essential writings about the medium of photography."

Social Problems

Author : Joel Best
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393283419
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Social Problems written by Joel Best and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem.

Encyclopedia of Social Problems

Author : Vincent N. Parrillo
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412941652
Total Pages : 1209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social Problems written by Vincent N. Parrillo and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From terrorism to social inequality and from health care to environmental issues, social problems affect us all. The Encyclopedia will offer an interdisciplinary perspective into these and many other social problems that are a continuing concern in our lives, whether we confront them on a personal, local, regional, national, or global level.

Contemporary Social Problems

Author : Robert King Merton
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Social Problems written by Robert King Merton and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace & World. This book was released on 1966 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sociology of Social Problems

Author : Paul B. Horton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Social Problems written by Paul B. Horton and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Problems

Author : Robert Hartmann McNamara
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190056353
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Social Problems written by Robert Hartmann McNamara and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the past thirty years, I have been teaching, studying, and researching social problems in the US. The topics have always been challenging and fascinating, while at the same time they have been frustrating and often disappointing. I always found examples of social programs that were effective at targeting a specific aspect of a complex problem, but too often these extraordinary ideas were applied beyond their capacity. Then, once the program failed to be a panacea, policymakers discounted the actual value of the program in its original design. I felt a similar frustration when enormous resources were dedicated to programs that, while politically popular, had little chance at succeeding because they were based on inaccurate assessments of the problem. It is easy to see why students might feel that a social problems course offers little encouragement to find solutions. When I had the opportunity to write a comprehensive social problems textbook for Oxford University Press, I was presented with a moment to frame the issues in an objective way: to explain clearly and effectively not only the nature and complexity of specific social problems, but how sociological theory is a useful lens through which these problems can be understood. I also had the chance to point out that there are, in fact, solutions that work. As I tell my students, the question is not really what caused the problem -- we know these are social problems and that means they have social causes. The interesting question is: what we are willing as a society to do about them?"--

The Trouble with Diversity

Author : Walter Benn Michaels
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250099331
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Diversity written by Walter Benn Michaels and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of the American obsession with diversity argues that we are ignoring the ever-widening economic divide in American society, that diversity has created a false notion of social justice, and that we need to emphasize equality over diversity.

Understanding Social Problems

Author : Linda A. Mooney
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780176502775
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Social Problems written by Linda A. Mooney and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from a distinctly Canadian point of view, Understanding Social Problems, Fourth Canadian Edition, examines how the structure and culture of societies contribute to social problems and their consequences. This text has strong pedagogical features and is comprehensive in its coverage, progressing from micro to macro levels of analysis. It focuses first on problems of health care, drug use, and crime, and then broadens to the widening concerns of population, health and welfare, science and technology, large-scale inequality and environmental problems. Known for its inclusive approach, Understanding Social Problems, Fourth Canadian Edition, explores powerful stories of real life people struggling with the challenges society and its problems have thrust upon them.

Analyzing Social Problems

Author : Dana Dunn
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780130832283
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Analyzing Social Problems written by Dana Dunn and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hands-on, social problems "workbook" contains a 25 essays with accompanying exercises that address contemporary social problems and encourage critical and creative thinking about those problems. It features essays that are original, timely, and authoritative and that focus on issues that are personally relevant to today's society. The essays are written by experts in the specific areas in which they write and incorporate their own research findings and experiences into their essays and exercises. The introduction contains a sociological "tool kit" for analyzing problems in the introductory chapter along with an introduction to the various sociological approaches for addressing social problems. social institutions, social inequalities, social deviance, global social problems and social movement and change. For anyone interested in the field of social problems.

Social Problems and the Quality of Life

Author : Robert H. Lauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780697075659
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Social Problems and the Quality of Life written by Robert H. Lauer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Claims Spread

Author : Joel Best
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202366494
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book How Claims Spread written by Joel Best and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best's anthology examines for the first time how diverse social issues--road rage, the metric system, gun control, and abortion are among those included--migrate across national boundaries, modifying themselves from place to place as a result of different claims, claimsmakers, and policy responses. This unique collection, assembled from new research by an international group of social problems scholars, will fill a gap in undergraduate and graduate level studies in the constructionist analyses of social problems, as well as in political science, public policy, and criminology. Claims concerning one social problem often influence those about another: claimsmakers borrow rhetoric and tactics from one another. In some cases, experienced claimsmakers join efforts to call attention to other social problems: compelling images (e.g., the threatened child or random violence) link claims about different problems and reactions to one set of claims. These case studies describe very different processes, ranging from deliberate attempts to disseminate social problem claims to developments that were more inadvertent, from successes in which social problem constructions spread to new countries to failures in which claims were sown, but failed to take root. They are intended to suggest that the diffusion of social problems is neither simple nor automatic. Joel Best is professor and chair, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware. He has served as an editorial advisor for Aldine that has produced fifty titles.

Totality Inside Out

Author : Kevin Floyd
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823298213
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Totality Inside Out written by Kevin Floyd and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However divergent their analyses may be in other ways, some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically oppressed and marginalized on the basis of race, gender, sexual identity, sexual preference, and/or ability, arguing that the most these struggles can hope to produce is a more diversity-friendly capital. Meanwhile, scholars of gender and sexuality as well as race and ethnic studies maintain that, by elevating the socioeconomic above other logics of domination, anti-capitalist thought fails to acknowledge specific forms and experiences of subjugation. The thinkers and activists who appear in Totality Inside Out reject this divisive logic altogether. Instead, they aim for a more expansive analysis of our contemporary moment to uncover connected sites of political struggle over racial and economic justice, materialist feminist and queer critique, climate change, and aesthetic value. The re-imagined account of capitalist totality that appears in this volume illuminates the material interlinkages between discrepant social phenomena, forms of oppression, and group histories, offering multiple entry points for readers who are interested in exploring how capitalism shapes integral relations within the social whole. Contributors: Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sarah Brouillette, Sarika Chandra, Chris Chen, Joshua Clover, Tim Kreiner, Arthur Scarritt, Zoe Sutherland, Marina Vishmidt

Social Problems

Author : Joel M. Charon
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780495004608
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Social Problems written by Joel M. Charon and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and groundbreaking collection of 54 articles organized in 11 thematic sections, SOCIAL PROBLEMS: READINGS WITH FOUR QUESTIONS 2e takes a structural/conflict approach yet lets the voices of those impacted by social problems be heard. The articles are a mix of classic and contemporary readings, covering a wide range of issues in the United States and the world. The introductory article, written by Joel Charon, focuses on four questions that students are urged to apply throughout the reader: What is the problem? What makes the problem a "social problem"? What causes the problem? What can be done? This four questions approach gives students a consistent sociological framework within which to analyze social problems. The articles have been painstakingly selected to hold student interest, highlight contemporary social problems, and help professors show students how to think sociologically about the social problems around us.

Social Problems

Author : Charles Zastrow
Publisher : Burnham
ISBN 13 : 9780830411979
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Social Problems written by Charles Zastrow and published by Burnham. This book was released on 1988 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOCIAL PROBLEMS: ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS provides a clear and concise description and analysis of major social problems in the United States. The text stimulates interest in understanding and doing something about resolving social problems by presenting and describing solutions for each problem discussed. Provides an understanding of sociological theories and research that explains the nature of social problems and possible resolutions.

The Analysis of Social Problems

Author : Linda R. Weber
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 : 9780205141661
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Analysis of Social Problems written by Linda R. Weber and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *HH06, The Analysis of Social Problems, Linda R. Weber(State University of New York), H4166-8, 300 pp., 6 x 9, 0-205-14166-8, paperbound, 1995, $15.00nk, November*/This book takes an analytical approach to the study of social problems. The author develops a conceptual framework from which to understand social problems, helping students integrate detailed materials found in traditional social problems books. The book provides readers who have no sociological background with an overview background of sociology, its theory and methods.

Social Problems

Author : LeRoy W. Barnes
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780879673970
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Social Problems written by LeRoy W. Barnes and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1982 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beauty Myth

Author : Naomi Wolf
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006196994X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty Myth written by Naomi Wolf and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."