Jonathan Cobb
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Cobb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cobb |
| SIGNATURE | COBB J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reflections on Working with Homeless People
As a housing case manager in a homeless shelter, I work closely with homeless people every day. While there is an important place for the tools of social science in understanding the challenges they face, we should not distance ourselves emotionally from the homeless and treat them as stereotypes rather than as unique individuals. My main task in the shelter is to help the guests find their way through the almost impenetrable maze of government p…
The Hidden Injuries of Class
This book deals with class not as a matter of dollars or statistics but as a matter of emotions. Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb isolate the “hidden signals of class” through which today’s blue-collar worker measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society attaches a special premium. The authors uncover and define the internal, emotionally hurtful forms of class difference in America now becoming visible with the …
The Hidden Injuries of Class
The Hidden Injuries of Class
This book deals with class not as a matter of dollars or statistics but as a matter of emotions. Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb isolate the “hidden signals of class” through which today’s blue-collar worker measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society attaches a special premium. The authors uncover and define the internal, emotionally hurtful forms of class difference in America now becoming visible with the …
The Hidden Injuries of Class
The Hidden Injuries of Class
This book deals with class not as a matter of dollars or statistics but as a matter of emotions. Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb isolate the “hidden signals of class” through which today’s blue-collar worker measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society attaches a special premium. The authors uncover and define the internal, emotionally hurtful forms of class difference in America now becoming visible with the …
Reflections on Working with Homeless People
As a housing case manager in a homeless shelter, I work closely with homeless people every day. While there is an important place for the tools of social science in understanding the challenges they face, we should not distance ourselves emotionally from the homeless and treat them as stereotypes rather than as unique individuals. My main task in the shelter is to help the guests find their way through the almost impenetrable maze of government p…
Psychology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Scale (ratio) (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 1914 (1 work) · Accountability (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work)