Constructing Social Problems (Cummings Modular Program in Anthropology) - Softcover

Malcolm Spector

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0846567253 ISBN 13: 9780846567257

Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, 1977

Synopsis

In Constructing Social Problems, the authors propose that social problems be conceived as the claimsmaking activities of individuals or groups regarding social conditions they consider unjust, immoral, or harmful and that should be addressed. This perspective, as the authors have formulated it, conceives of social problems as a process of interaction that produces social problems as social facts in society. The authors further propose that this process and the social facts it produces are the data to be researched for the sociology of social problems. This volume will be of interest to those concerned with the discipline of sociology, especially its current theoretical development and growth.

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About the Author

John I. Kitsuse is professor emeritus at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is co-author (with Leonard Broom) of The Managed Casualty: The Japanese American Family in World War II, and co-editor (with Theodore R. Sarbin) of Constructing the Social.

Edition details

• Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0846567253
• ISBN 13: 9780846567257
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 184