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150462 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14485 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2011 iv, 89 p Masters Thesis Academic theses Text eng Warren, Matt Simmons, William P Wainer, Devorah Lee, Charles T Arizona State University Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2011 Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-89) Field of study: Social justice and human rights People going through homelessness in the contemporary U.S. struggle with a number of dehumanizing challenges. Even as some attempt to secure employment and end their homelessness, they may run into difficulties because they have been Othered to such a significant level. They have effectively been left out of society because of their lack of participation in its dominant activity as prescribed by market fundamentalism, the creation and exchange of goods. The following thesis seeks to explore the experience of homelessness for those within a homeless shelter environment in an economic-focused society. It utilizes Midrash Social Research Methodology (MSRM) to focus on the voice of the person going through homelessness, the marginalized Other. It relies on the phenomenology of the 20th-Century philosopher Emmanuel Levinas in an effort to explore the meaning and knowledge to be found in conversations held with the Other. The goal of this thesis is to propose a purposeful refocusing on service through conversation. The issue of homelessness is multi-faceted and its causes are as diverse as the people who experience it. Service providers in particular must engage those being Othered, and they must provide support in ways that allow for pluralistic realities, not prescribing singular means of ending homelessness. Sociology Social Research Economics, Labor Social work with the homeless--United States. Social work with the homeless Homeless persons--Services for--United States. Homelessness--United States. Man : serving people experiencing homelessness in an economic-focused society