The Problem of Teaching Social Problems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2200417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard C Fuller (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1938 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 415-435 |
| Publication date | 1938-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/218031 |
| OpenAlex | W2030221375 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
An appropriate subtitle to this article would be "Is There a Sociology of Social Problems?" Our conventional theories of social and personal disorganization are sterile instruments of analysis in so far as they ignore the very thing which not only gives rise to the social problem but which also impedes its solution, and that is the conflict between two or more sets of social values. The core of the social problem is a multisided clash of social interests. The job of the sociologist is to isolate and define these conflicting value judgements which are the modus operandi of the problem. He need no longer hold himself out as an expert on social problems but as an expert on the sociology of social problems. As a scientist he must avoid making value judgments; but moral judgments in themselves are the content of a true sociology of social problems
Core (optical fiber · Epistemology · Political science · Social issues · Social philosophy · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Society on the Edge
Sociologie des problèmes sociaux
Vorüberlegungen zu einer „Theorie sozialer Probleme“
What is a Social Problem? A History of its Definition
Ecotactics; the critical link
Qu’est-ce qu’un problème social ? Les apports théoriques de la sociologie anglo-saxonne
Social Problems and the Contextual Compromise
Social Workers and the Sociological Sense of Social Problems
Defining Social Problems
What Should Activist Scholars Teach in the Social Problems Classroom? Social Problems Literacy for Civic Engagement
Cognitive Claims-Making, Enclosure, and the Depoliticization of Social Problems
The Politics of Drugs
Hindu Values and Indian Social Problems
Whatever Happened to Social Pathology? Conceptual Fashions and the Sociology of Deviance
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1967 - 2020 (54) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |