The Universities and the Social Problem
| Author | : Sir John Eldon Gorst |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 1895 |
| Genre | : East End (London, England) |
| ISBN | : |
The Universities And The Social Problem
Download The Universities And The Social Problem full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Universities And The Social Problem ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
The Beauty of a Social Problem
| Author | : Walter Benn Michaels |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2015-07-13 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 022621026X |
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."
Affirmative Action for the Rich
| Author | : Richard D. Kahlenberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780870785191 |
The use of race-based affirmative action in higher education has given rise to hundreds of books and law review articles, numerous court decisions, and several state initiatives to ban the practice. However, surprisingly little has been said or written or done to challenge a larger, longstanding "affirmative action" program that tends to benefit wealthy whites: legacy preferences for the children of alumni. "Affirmative Action for the Rich" sketches the origins of legacy preferences, examines the philosophical issues they raise, outlines the extent of their use today, studies their impact on university fundraising, and reviews their implications for civil rights. In addition, the book outlines two new theories challenging the legality of legacy preferences, examines how a judge might review those claims, and assesses public policy options for curtailing alumni preferences. The book includes chapters by Michael Lind of the New America Foundation; Peter Schmidt of the "Chronicle of Higher Education"; former "Wall Street Journal" reporter Daniel Golden; Chad Coffman of Winnemac Consulting, attorney Tara O'Neil, and student Brian Starr; John Brittain of the University of the District of Columbia Law School and attorney Eric Bloom; Carlton Larson of the University of California--Davis School of Law; attorneys Steve Shadowen and Sozi Tulante; Sixth Circuit Court Judge Boyce F. Martin Jr. and attorney Donya Khalili; and education writer Peter Sacks.
The American College
| Author | : Nevitt Sanford |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1112 |
| Release | : 1962 |
| Genre | : Education, Higher |
| ISBN | : |
Black Feminist Thought
| Author | : Patricia Hill Collins |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2002-06-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135960135 |
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.
Understanding Social Problems
| Author | : Linda A. Mooney |
| Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2011-10-14 |
| Genre | : Canada |
| ISBN | : 9780176502775 |
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.
Social Problems
| Author | : Maxine P. Atkinson |
| Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2020-01-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1544358644 |
Wake up your social problems classes! Social Problems: Sociology in Action helps your students learn sociology by doing sociology. Social Problems will inspire your students to do sociology through real-world activities designed to increase learning, retention, and engagement with course material.
How Can We Solve Our Social Problems?
| Author | : James A. Crone |
| Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2010-05-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 141299358X |
Updated with recent issues such as the national debate on health care reform, this Second Edition of How Can We Solve Our Social Problems? gives students a sense of hope by demonstrating specific, realistic steps we can take to solve some of the most pervasive social problems in America today. Author James Crone maintains a sense of sociological objectivity throughout and helps students realize that we can take steps to solve such key social problems as poverty, racial and ethnic inequality, unequal education, and environmental issues. The book's first two chapters define "social problem,," provide a theoretical background, discuss the daunting barriers we face in attempting to solve social problems, and demonstrate how sociology can help.
The Sociology of Social Problems
| Author | : Adam Jamrozik |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1998-07-13 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521599320 |
Social problems such as unemployment, poverty and drug addiction are a fact of life in industrialised societies. This book examines the sociology of social problems from interesting and challenging perspectives. It analyses how social problems emerge and are defined as such, who takes responsibility for them, who is threatened by them and how they are managed, solved or ignored. The authors examine and critique existing theories of social problems before developing their own theoretical framework. Their 'theory of residualist conversion of social problems' explains how certain social problems threaten legitimate power structures, so that problems of a social or political nature are transformed into personal problems, and the 'helping professions' are left to intervene. This book will become a key reference on class, inequality and social intervention and an important text for students in sociology and social work courses.
Investigating Social Problems
| Author | : A. Javier Trevino |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 573 |
| Release | : 2014-08-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1452242038 |
Each chapter in this innovative social problems text is written by a specialist or pair of specialists from appropriate subfields within sociology. The typical single-author approach is limiting given the complexity of the contemporary issues surrounding each social problem discussed. Involving many content experts ensures that the theories, research, and examples used in each chapter will be as current and relevant as possible. Chapters open with personal statements from the contributing authors, discussing how they got involved with studying the problem they are writing about. Javier Trevino serves as the general editor, making sure that each author follows the chapter template and maintains a consistency in level and style.
