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A Quiet Suffering: Some Notes on the Sociology of Suffering 1
Author(s) -
Harvey Daina Cheyenne
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
sociological forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1573-7861
pISSN - 0884-8971
DOI - 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2012.01329.x
Subject(s) - ninth , sociology , quiet , hurricane katrina , criminology , social science , natural disaster , geography , physics , quantum mechanics , meteorology , acoustics
Despite a recent increase in attention within the social sciences, suffering remains for the most part outside of the purview of sociologists. In this essay, I explore the possibilities for a sociology of suffering by briefly interrogating suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward, the epicenter of the hurricane and the federal levee failures.