Suffering: A Sociological Introduction

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3197-4

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240 pages

December 2004, Polity

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Preface and Acknowledgements.

1 Introduction: Suffering, Social Science and the Challenge to Sociology.

2 What is Suffering?

3 Our Classical Heritage.

4 Social Suffering: A Critical Appraisal.

5 The Problem of Suffering and our Feeling for Humanity.

6 Mediatized Suffering: Prospects for the Internationalisation of Conscience.

7 Towards a Critical Sociology of Suffering.

References.

Index.