The Weight of the World
Subtitle: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: January 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780745615936
Subjects: Multicultural studies; Poverty; Social groups & communities; Minority Studies - General; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Sociology - General; Sociology
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.