Two NYUs and “The Obligation of Universities to the Social Order” in the Great Depression

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-79
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Social

Depression and the Welfare State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Mayhew
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Social Provision ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Security Act ◽  
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ◽  
High Place

This chapter navigates the 1930s and groups two impulses into it: responding to the Great Depression and building a welfare state equipped with instruments of social provision. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democrats blended these two impulses when they executed their New Deal in the 1930s. However, on current inspection, the blend is confusing and sometimes contradictory, and there is a difference in time span. Responding to the Great Depression was clearly a 1930s drive; whereas the Social Security Act of 1935 still enjoys its high place at the top of the American welfare state. The chapter shows how the timeline on building U.S. social provision runs a lot longer before and afterward.

The Melancholy of Faith

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jermaine Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Hierarchy ◽  
Gendered Power

This chapter addresses the question of how unresolved racial grief works through the demands of capital, racialization, and sacred ritual practice to enact a gender hierarchy. It thinks through James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), to explore how testifying serves as a technology of black patriarchy—a ritual that arises out of the need for racial and economic redemption yet unfolds within and propagates gendered power relations. It examines how the content and structure of Baldwin's Bildungsroman, set in Harlem's Pentecostal community during the Great Depression, allegorizes the conversion of John Grimes, who embodies the “weak, feminine flesh” of his matrilineal line that is sacrificed to secure his “manchild” status of salvation. The chapter is punctuated by a section that situates Baldwin's novel as a form of sexual testifying on the part of Baldwin himself. In doing so, it places Baldwin's novel in conversation with its dramatic sequel, The Amen Corner (1954), to explore how both texts anticipate and extend queer theoretical conversations about the social construction of black, gay subject-formations.

scholarly journals American cinema of the Great Depression. The «Social Restlessness Phase»

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Vladislavovich Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Private Interest ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gangster Film ◽  
American Society

The article overviews the American cinema of the 1930 in terms of the “cyclic conception” stating that the life of American society is subject to a distinctive algorhithm of public mood: “social restlessness” alternating with “private interest”. The author surveys gangster film, one of the dominating genres of the Depression cinema as exemplified by “The Pubic Enemy (1931, dir. William A. Wellman). The article also traces the links of the “social restlessness” films of the 1930s with the previous and subsequent phases stressing the problem of dividing each phase into stages: formation, prime and decline.

Introduction

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Wuthnow
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Elementary And Secondary Education ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Middle West ◽  
North And South

This book examines the resilience shown by the American Middle West—Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Arkansas, and Oklahoma—despite going through profound social upheavals during the half century that began in the 1950s. It shows that the Middle West has undergone a strong, positive transformation since the 1950s—a time when many families were still recovering from the Great Depression. The transformation is surprising because it took place in the nation's heartland. The region's economy fared surprisingly well; agribusiness was flourishing; elementary and secondary education was among the best in the nation; the region was known for innovative medical research and biotechnology. The chapter suggests that one precondition for the social change that has happened in the Middle West is the fact that the region largely comprised rich land with vast potential for crops and livestock as well as mineral wealth.

Hollywood's Washington: Film Images of National Politics During the Great Depression

Prospects ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 169-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence W. Levine
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
National Politics ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Film Images ◽  
Economic Conflict

In her recollections of the 1930s, Louise Tanner helped to create an image that has stayed with us despite a number of studies that should have dissolved it by now. Thirties movies were, she insisted,a flop as a source of Communist propaganda. Some studios – notably Warner brothers – tried to bring Father to grips with social reality. But most of the cinemoguls agreed with Louis B. Mayer that Dad got all the social significance he needed at home. The script writers of Hollywood might take the Spanish Civil War to heart but they were more concerned with a public that preferred Carole Lombard doing secretarial work in a penthouse with a white telephone. Father sitting there in the dark forgot his own plight as he watched the gods and goddesses of the screen sweeping down staircases into dining rooms with a footman behind every chair. Depression movies portrayed an America devoid of economic conflict.

EUROPEAN SOCIAL ORDER IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL CRISIS

2012 ◽  
Vol 164 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-156
Author(s):  
Jerzy BESTRY
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face

The world is on the eve of change. Current economic recession surprisingly resembles the ”Great Depression” of 1929. The time will show whether the global society has drawn conclusions from the traumatic experiences of the last century. Historia magistra vitae est. In this article, the author makes a prediction concerning European social order based on the analysis of present-day socio-economic events and the circumstances preceding both the current economic crisis and the past one.

scholarly journals Le sirene del corporativismo e l'isolamento dei dissidenti durante il fascismo

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Inheritance Tax ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Italian Politics ◽  
De Finetti ◽  
The Ideal

The volume collects nine essays on Italian politics, economics, and law during Fascism. Some are dedicated to the ideal objectives of corporatism, aiming at the renewal of politics, institutions and culture, and the objectively dismal results of the implemented policies. Economic researches analyze the debated abolishment of the inheritance tax in the 1923, and the various policies proposed by some Italian economists to counter the disastrous effects of the Great Depression. Specific attention is also given to the problem of the development of Italy’s southern regions. An essay is further dedicated to the influence of corporatism and idealism on the mathematical economist Bruno de Finetti. In the field of law, authors investigate the long lasting features impressed by Fascism on Italian administrative law and, in general, the permanence of a typically Fascist magniloquent style in the Italian jurisdictional language. Lastly, as suggested by title of this volume, a chapter analyses the social and political thinking of Carlo Rosselli, leading anti-fascist intellectual who paid dearly for his dissent.

Brother, Can You Spare a Ride?

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-44
Author(s):  
Jack Reid
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
White Male ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Media ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The New Deal

This chapter covers the Great Depression and explores the ways this socio-economic environment impacted American perceptions of transient individuals—focusing on the perspectives of hitchhikers, the media, and law enforcement agencies. Economic dislocations and widespread unemployment spurred discussions about the merits of social cooperation and self-reliance in American culture, manifesting in heated debates about the “worthiness” of hitchhikers’ pleas for lifts. With the depression stagnating automobile purchases, the New Deal social order softened American attitudes toward white male hitchhikers. Still, Jim Crow policies and patriarchal attitudes made it more difficult for minorities and women to solicit rides. Detailed stories throughout document the tactile experience of those on the road, offering new insights into the lives of Americans during the Great Depression.

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