Description |
xii, 241 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Designing Equality in a Socialist Setting 2. Schooling for Socialism / Szonja Szelenyi and Karen E. Aschaffenburg 3. The Class Structure of Classless Hungary 4. Family Origins, Collective Property, and the State: Trends in Intergenerational Class Mobility 5. Quotas and Careers: Trends in Intragenerational Class Mobility / Szonja Szelenyi and Winifred R. Poster 6. Where Have All the Cadres Gone? The Fate of the Old Elite in Post Communist Hungary / Szonja Szelenyi and Mariko Lin Chang 7. Farewell to a Socialist Experiment App. A. University Application Forms App. B. The 1983 Hungarian Social Mobility and Life History Survey App. C. Mapping of the 1983 Hungarian Standard Occupational Classification System into Class Categories App. D. Class Mobility Tables |
Summary |
This book will become a key reference on class, inequality and social intervention, and an important text for students in sociology and social work courses |
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This book examines the sociology of social problems from new and challenging perspectives. It analyses how social problems emerge and are defined as such, who takes responsibility for them, who is threatened by them, and how they are managed, solved or ignored. The authors examine and critique existing theories of social problems before developing their own theoretical framework. Their theory of residualist conversion of social problems explains how certain social problems threaten legitimate power structures, so that problems of a social or political nature are transformed into personal problems, and the 'helping professions' are left to intervene |
Analysis |
Equality |
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Families |
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Federal issue |
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Social conditions |
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Social order |
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Social problems |
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Social work |
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Sociology |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages 220-229) and index |
Audience |
Tertiary students |
Subject |
Social problems.
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Sociology -- Methodology.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311
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Author |
Nocella, Luisa D
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LC no. |
98013503 |
ISBN |
0521590701 |
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0521599326 (paperback) |
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