Suffering a sociological introduction
* Provides a convincing exploration of a central theme of our times: human suffering. The author writes well; his remarks on the brute fact of suffering are very powerfully made. * There are no real rivals to this book, since until its publication there had been no really systematic sociological theorisation of pain and suffering.
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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.