Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ484424
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-3557
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How Social Problems Are Born.
Glazer, Nathan
Public Interest, n115 p31-44 Spr 1994
Examines how social conditions can become social problems and argues that there are objective ways of determining the scale of a particular problem. The paper supports its argument through examinations of prohibition, the decline in tobacco consumption, and the war on drugs. (GLR)
Descriptors: Criteria, Definitions, Political Issues, Public Health, Public Opinion, Smoking, Social Environment, Social Problems
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - General; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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