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Social Problems Work: The Cases of Children and Youth
Author(s) -
Miller Gale,
Vitus Kathrine
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
sociology compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 1751-9020
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00228.x
Subject(s) - normalization (sociology) , sociology , work (physics) , social work , youth work , focus (optics) , social issues , youth studies , social science , gender studies , public relations , political science , law , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , engineering
This article reviews the literature on social problems work concerned with children and young people. Social problems work involves assessing particular people, events and circumstances as instances of social problems. We focus on how social problems work is organized within discourses of childhood and youth, how it is a site for holding children and young people accountable, and how normalization is an aspect of social problems work. Our review brings together analytic themes in the literature on social problems and that on children and young people. We also point to topics that might be elaborated upon in future research on social problems work concerned with children and young people.