Constructing Social Problems (Cummings series in contemporary sociology) Pdf

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Release: 1977-12
Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0846567253
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Constructing Social Problems (Cummings series in contemporary sociology) pdf
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There is no adequate definition of social problems within sociology, and there is not and never has been a sociology of social problems. That observation is the point of departure of this book. The authors aim to provide such a definition and to prepare the ground for the empirical study of social problems. They are aware that their objective will strike many fellow sociologists as ambitious, perhaps even arrogant. Their work challenges sociologists who have, over a period of fifty years, written treatises on social problems, produced textbooks cataloguing the nature, distribution, and causes of these problems, and taught many sociology courses. It is only natural that the authors' work will be viewed as controversial in light of the large literature which has established a "sociology of" a wide range of social problems-the sociology of race relations, prostitution, poverty, crime, mental illness, and so forth.

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