The Weight of the World
Subtitle: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780804738446
Subjects: Poor; Social Situations And Conditions; People with social disabilitie; Contemporary Politics; Sociology; Social Science; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; People with social disabilities; Minority Studies - General; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social conditions; France; Marginality, Social
First sentence: To understand what happens in places like "projects" or "housing developments" as well as in certain kinds of schools, places which bring together people who have nothing in common and force them to live together, either in mutual ignorance and incomprehension or else in latent or open conflict - with all the suffering this entails - it is not enough to explain each point of view separately.