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This volume aims to provide a definition of social problems within sociology and to prepare the ground for the empirical study of social problems. The work challenges sociologists who, over many years, have written treatises on social problems, and will be viewed as controversial.

There is no adequate definition of social problems within sociology, and there is not and never has been a sociology of social problems. That observation is the point of departure of this book. The authors aim to provide such a definition and to prepare the ground for the empirical study of social problems. They are aware that their objective will strike many fellow sociologists as ambitious, perhaps even arrogant. Their work challenges sociol...