Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-280) and index.
Contents:
How not to notice : overlooking interpersonal problems -- How to be a bystander : ignoring public problems -- How to avoid blame : explaining away problems -- How to conceal misconduct : organizations hiding problems -- How to avoid scandal : elites managing problems -- How to hide in plain sight : denying racism.
Summary:
"In this new book, Jared Del Rosso argues that to understand contemporary social problems we need to become aware of the strategies that people use to deny the existence of those very problems. Drawing on research in sociology, criminology, psychology, and communication studies, Del Rosso develops a new vocabulary for describing denial and its consequences. With examples from everyday observations, current events, and social scientific research, Del Rosso also reveals just how widespread and varied the uses of denial are. Some uses of denial can help people repair their interactions and relationships with others. But most uses of it allows problems to fester, unrecognized. We need, Del Rosso concludes, forms of acknowledgement to surface long-denied problems. But more than that, we need collective forms of action to remedy the harms that those problems and our denial of them have done"-- Provided by publisher.
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