Rethinking the “Sociology of Social Problems”

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  • 「社会問題の社会学」再考
  • An Interpretation
  • 一つの解釈

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In 1977, Malcom Spector and John I. Kitsuse proposed for the study of the social problems focus on the activities of participants, which is well-known as “claims-making activities”. They also contended that social problems are to be conceived of as a topic for the sociological study in themselves. Although the focus on the activities is a significant proposal, with respect of the latter point, however, their proposal taken literally tends to deflecting attention from social problems as such. My contention is that what is lacking and what is needed is some clear notion of the relation between studying the activities of participants and the study of social problems as such. In addition, I tentatively sketch one possible notion of such relations.

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  • CRID
    1390001205364647808
  • NII Article ID
    130004124889
  • DOI
    10.5690/kantoh.2004.155
  • ISSN
    18840086
    09194363
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
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    • CiNii Articles
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