The Beauty Of A Social Problem

Author : Walter Benn Michaels
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022621026X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( 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."

Author : Vincent N. Parrillo
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412941652
Total Pages : 1209 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( 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.

Author : Kevin Floyd
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823298213
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( 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

Author : LeRoy W. Barnes
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780879673970
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( 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:

Author : Stephen Best
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002581
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book None Like Us written by Stephen Best and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a “we” at the point of “our” violent origin. Best argues that there is and can be no “we” following from such a time and place, that black identity is constituted in and through negation, taking inspiration from David Walker’s prayer that “none like us may ever live again until time shall be no more.” Best draws out the connections between a sense of impossible black sociality and strains of negativity that have operated under the sign of queer. In None Like Us the art of El Anatsui and Mark Bradford, the literature of Toni Morrison and Gwendolyn Brooks, even rumors in the archive, evidence an apocalyptic aesthetics, or self-eclipse, which opens the circuits between past and present and thus charts a queer future for black study.

Author : John Alessio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317053559
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Problems and Inequality written by John Alessio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Problems and Inequality explores integrated and root-cause-based explanations of complex social problems. Written in clear and understandable language, allowing it to be used for classroom purposes, it addresses the most fundamental principles of how humans, acting through social units, create, and eventually can remedy, social problems. With a central focus on the problem of inequality and the manner in which this is manifested in crime, social class and stratification, this book examines the key theoretical perspectives relevant to the study and solution of social problems, whilst drawing upon rich illustrations and case studies from the US and Europe to offer a thorough examination of the nature, common root causes and social remedies of social problems. Providing discussions of both theoretical approaches and concrete applications, Social Problems and Inequality investigates the sources of various prejudices and attitudes that contribute to social problems and the associated issues of globalization, economic greed and imperialism. Accessible in style and comprehensive in its coverage, this book will appeal to students and scholars of social problems across the social sciences.

Author : Linda R. Weber
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 : 9780205141661
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( 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.

Author : Elliot Aronson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780716759669
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings About The Social Animal written by Elliot Aronson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-08-22 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized to illustrate the major themes of Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal, this collection of classic and contemporary readings explores the most important ideas, issues, and debates in social psychology today.

Author : John B. Williamson
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Problems written by John B. Williamson and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1981 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Will Durant
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1776532031
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Social Problem written by Will Durant and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Durant was an influential American philosopher who sought to offer a unified perspective of the whole of Western thought, as well as to present philosophical issues and problems in accessible language that could appeal to a broad audience. In Philosophy and the Social Problem, Durant tackles his greatest concern: that of reducing human misery by changing our social and political institutions.