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The Politics of Alcoholism
Carolyn Wiener
其他書名
Building an Arena Around a Social Problem
出版Taylor & Francis, 2023-04-14
主題Social Science / Disease & Health IssuesSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN10009481889781000948189
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Rdu4EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Politics of Alcoholism can be read on one level as a fascinating history of the evolving politics of what this country is doing about “the problem of alcoholism.” Not so long ago that problem was scarcely larger than a human hand against the horizon, but now it makes good, regular newspaper copy. This text follows through on the much-raised question of how a social problem becomes defined as a large scale problem, when the same phenomenon x Preface now labeled as “a problem” was not so named before. What is offered here is a direct attack on the rise into public visibility of something previously the concern of a relatively small number of people and groups, and which gets defined along the way as a problem for the whole nation. The second issue addressed is closer to the political scientist’s traditional interest, namely the politics of handling public issues: research and theorizing here usually focus on interest groups, lobbying, public debate, legislative rights, constituencies, and so on.