ncragoe's review against another edition
3.0
I used this as the main textbook for a Social Problems course. It's an analytically useful way of approaching the construction of social problems, and very readable for students, but I wouldn't recommend making it the core text for a course, mainly because if you stretch it out over a full semester, you'll start belaboring the point halfway through. Better to excerpt a couple of chapters at the beginning of the semester and then use it as a theoretical framework for addressing specific social problems/conditions.
logikitty's review against another edition
5.0
Read this book for a sociology course focusing on the construction and perception of social problems. This book was very straight forward, easy to read, and had wonderful diagrams to go along with more abstract concepts. I would read this again!
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