The politics of culture : race, violence, and democracy / Jung Min Choi, Karen A. Callaghan, and John W. Murphy.

Author
Choi, Jung Min [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995.
Description
xii, 171 pages ; 25 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-166) and index.
    Contents
    • I. Contemporary Society and Morality. 1. Laissez-faire and the Moral Dimension. 2. Morals Are Back Again. 3. The Fallout from Laissez-faire. 4. A Case of Pluralism Denied. 5. Some Thoughts on Violence, Again
    • II. Poverty and Culture. 6. Conservatives, Civil Unrest, and Class. 7. Poverty and Sociologism. 8. What Is Structural About the Economy? 9. The Culture-of-Poverty Thesis Revisited. 10. Modernity, the Economy, and the Democratization of Economic Life. 11. Democracy and Culture
    • III. Social Control, Ideology, and Pluralism. 12. A Recent Example of Cinema Verite and the Ideology of Crime. 13. Private vs. Public: A Dubious Distinction? 14. Law Enforcement, Institutionalized Violence, and Community Control of Policing. 15. Social Imagery and Democratization. 16. Symbolic Violence and the Disembodiment of Identity. 17. The Significance of Postmodernism for Race Relations. 18. Why Assimilationists Are Afraid of Postmodernists.
    ISBN
    • 0275948897 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780275948894 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    95003333
    OCLC
    31971149
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