Sentences with phrase «social criticism»

Unfortunately, by conforming to this pressure, those mothers have also received a great deal of social criticism for often being feared by their children.

She knows that a dark sense of humor, a keen eye for social criticism, and the diligence to work for change are essential tools for survival.

My book is part personal journey, part social criticism, part investigative journalism.

However, when we talk about social criticism, we look at the narratives that are being deployed, how they are being deployed, and what work they do.

With her keen perspective on things, this character then opened the door on a kind of social criticism.

By directing his students through an intensive course in social criticism and neo-orthodox theology, Frank wants to make them see that the evangelical subculture is based, as he puts it, «upon lies and denials,» and that it has become blinded by moralism to the real gospel of Jesus Christ.

And, because Waugh's nostalgia is «a yearning for an irretrievably lost cause... as social criticism [his work] is therefore merely frivolous and petulant.»

The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions by michael walzer yale, 192 pages, $ 26 Michael Walzer's name is associated with the summons to undertake social criticism that is engaged: that is, rooted in actual circumstances; cognizant of real people's wants,....

The little painting, physically not much larger than the book, is also not social protest art, though poetic social criticism overflows from it.

His subject matter mostly focused on working - class America, while incorporating social criticism.

P.J. O'Rourke is a satirist, using wit as a way to deliver social criticism, and in this week's Wall Street Journal he skewers cyclists, inviting them to «Go Play in

Last of all, her style as well the spirit of social criticism which typifies her work borrow from German Expressionism.

Such social criticism is useful for subverting injustice when it is writ large; it is also useful for transcultural solidarity with different peoples and cultures.

For Wells, the pervasive moral stupor characteristic of late - twentieth - century North American culture, to which much social criticism in recent years has been directed, demands a response from the Church before any thoroughgoing moral reconstruction of civil society can take place.

Unlike most evangelical theologians, Wells is at home interacting with social criticism ranging from Philip Rieff, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Christopher Lasch to Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and James Q. Wilson.

Unlike James Joyce, who was alienated and angry and therefore turned his critical intelligence into a weapon, or later novelists for whom social criticism became a rhetorical convention, James and Conrad were modern enough to see our socially constructed self - images, and yet not so modern as to cherish or reject them» or take them for granted.

This focus on the social functions of language has drawn together literary and social criticism toward something of a convergence on what might be termed ideological criticism, an issue also central to the third methodological movement to be discussed, cultural hermeneutics.

Concern for manners should never undermine necessary social criticism.

Works of social criticism often do not wear well, and even the best of them tend to fade in interest by their fiftieth birthday.

He and his many devoted followers on the left would do well to think through more thoroughly and take to heart more fully the eloquent strictures about the need for engaged social criticism — criticism that first seeks to understand people on their own terms and in light of their own standards — that Walzer has woven into his voluminous writings.

He not only anticipated some of the now - dominant theories in human sociobiology circles but identified the principles that are now the explicit basis for celebrated feminist social criticism.

Openness requires continual self - criticism and continual social criticism especially of those movements with which we identify ourselves most closely.

Given social criticism, people who are unfamiliar with the practice of nursing beyond infancy may wonder why mothers would want to continue to nurse through toddlerhood and beyond.

Beautifully photographed noir from master Clouzot with a perfect balance of farce and post-war social criticism.

The charmingly impetuous Odette Joyeux sparkles at the height of her stardom in a quartet of protofeminist roles, crafted by screenwriter Jean Aurenche, who injects a strain of progressive social criticism that managed to evade the Nazi censors.

Since van Warmerdam always shies away from offering social criticism, it is only consistent that the motivations of his villains are «blurry», and that his horror - pastiche lacks a true «killer punch» (14).

(Following in Stahl's soap - opera tradition was the great Douglas Sirk, known for his lavish productions underpinned with stinging social criticism.

They also praised Mr. Levine's unabashed use of poetry as a vehicle for radical social criticism, noting his frank explorations of the nature of masculinity and his cleareyed depictions of working - class lives and the immigrant Jewish experience.»

With fairly cursory critical discussions, perpetual plot synopses, and adjective - driven lauding («an acidulous commentary on class» or «a masterclass in film acting,» to name a couple) in place of detail - driven social criticism, Forshaw has placed himself between a Brighton Rock (1947) and a Kill List (2011), casting his historical net too wide for anything more than introductory textual assessment.

At Bard, these students take introductory liberal arts and science courses on topics such as Brain Science and Conscientiousness, Environmental Science and Ethics, and Modern Social Criticism.

Richard Diebenkorn has the vertical grid, interrupted by diagonals, of his late panoramas, and Paul Kos the blank turn against social criticism.

He enjoyed success from the 1960s, when he began producing images that oscillate between the macabre and surreal, and which use American icons and mythology as a vehicle for his cruel but ironic social criticism.

Photorealism, she explained, was a cousin of pop art, but it didn't seem to include the subtle social criticism that fueled the work of Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist and others.

These are not social criticisms per se, but systematic analyses: representations of the artist's understanding of ours as a world in which nature, humanity, and technology controlled and nurtured each other in a closed circuit.

Carl Kenz is a talented German urban artist whose humoristic surrealistic paintings often imply social criticism.

«Butler und Junge», circa 1915, «Stammtischstudien» from 1919 and «Ku Klux Klan» from 1920, which have strong connotations of caricature, express the fierce social criticism that characterizes the artist's production and which, with the rise of Nazis in Germany, would bring him the epithet «degenerate artist».

Eschewing social criticism or judgement, she continues to document the people and objects that she feels are ignored by mainstream narratives.

He serves as an example for legitimate social criticism and free expression both in China and internationally.

A massive investment in social criticism is needed in the American church, for it is the structures of our society and institutions, wittingly or not, that define people as beggars and that render them blind.

Michael Walzer's name is associated with the summons to undertake social criticism that is engaged: that is, rooted in actual circumstances; cognizant of real people's wants, needs, and desires; and respectful of the diversity of beliefs, practices, and forms of association by which groups of men and women organize their moral, political, and spiritual lives.

Their videos playfully explore the intrinsic properties of found objects to generate incisive and poetic social criticism.

Eschewing traditional retrospective design, the curatorial team chose to fit Pettibon's 940 drawings into themes incorporating social criticism and varying visual styles.

P.J. O'Rourke is a satirist, using wit as a way to deliver social criticism, and in this week's Wall Street Journal he skewers cyclists, inviting them to «Go Play in Traffic.»

The dual point of view is used effectively, though it's less valid as social criticism (where Penn's observations tend toward facile revisionism) than as an index of the uncertainty that characterizes most of Penn's heroes.

There is a fascinating section depicting «voyages» and street actions by the ever - evolving Japanese performance collective The Play, who have been active since 1967 and whose work blends avant - garde theatre with social criticism.

As in his earlier volumes, Wells shows himself to be conversant with various streams of social criticism as he wrestles with the present and future of evangelical faith.

But the film leapfrogs obvious questions in its path, and avoids the opportunities sci - fi provides for social criticism; compare its world with the dystopias in «Gattaca» or «The Truman Show.»