Social Problems across the Life Course (Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series) ISBN-13: 9780742528352

Author: Lopata, Helena Z.

Brand: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Edition: 0336th

Number Of Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780742528352

Release Date: 03-09-2003

Languages: English

Binding: Paperback

Part Number: 0742528359_used

Package Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches

Details: Product Description
The human life course is filled with and subject to a wide range of personal difficulties, many of which are shared by others. Life events and processes such as birth, childhood, training for and entering an occupation, marriage, and procreation, growing older, death and dying are all subject to dilemmas, obstacles, and barriers.
Social Problems across the Life Course offers accessible readings that examine the societal construction of social problems out of the personal troubles that people confront at major life stages. The essays provide an overview and illustrate the theory and principals that inform both the life course and social problems. Introductions by the editors vividly introduce the research and key theories in this unique anthology, perhaps the only one available to help students understand how life stages and personal and social problems interact.
About the Author
The late
Helena Z. Lopata was professor emerita of sociology at Loyola University.

Judith A. Levy is an associate professor in the School of Public Health, Health Policy, and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago.