Constructing Social Problems
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: September 18, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780765807168
Subjects: Social issues; Social theory; Sociology; Social Situations And Conditions; Sociological Theory; Social Science; Sociology - General; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Social Science / Social Work; Social problems
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.