The End of Justice and the Last Brand

Social work has begun to lose its handle on justice for two reasons: first, the profession has claimed its self-protective place among knowledge workers and second, because it has emptied the term "justice" of meaning. These developments find their parallel counterpart in the culture at la...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inJournal of progressive human services Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 5 - 23
Main Author Gross, Gregory D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 21.02.2006
Subjects
claimsmaking
commodification
Justice
Knowledge workers
ludic
Popular Culture
postmodern
Postmodernism
Social Workers
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Social work has begun to lose its handle on justice for two reasons: first, the profession has claimed its self-protective place among knowledge workers and second, because it has emptied the term "justice" of meaning. These developments find their parallel counterpart in the culture at large where justice has become trivialized within a liquid modernity found in the marketplace of television, the Internet, and the social.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 23
ISSN:1042-8232
1540-7616
DOI:10.1300/J059v17n01_02