The Social Problem of Lone Mothers in Europe

The problem of the discrimination of people with disabilities remains being an urgent social problem. Misunderstanding of the meaning of this problem by others results in a situation when invalid’s level of life cannot be equal to a healthy person’s level of life. This article raises the issue of ableism in order to explore the idea of barrier-free environment integration. The results of a social survey are demonstrating a good level of respondent’s awareness concerning this problem and their will to participate in a discussion and taking of measures for the integration of a barrier-free environment with the intention to raise the invalid’s level of life.

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THE SOCIAL PROBLEM AND HEREDITY

The Medical Journal of Australia ◽

10.5694/j.1326-5377.1934.tb42730.x ◽

1934 ◽

Vol 1 (16) ◽

pp. 535-535

Keyword(s):

Social Problem ◽

The Social

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Constructing Images of Deviance: A Look at State Intervention into the Problem of Wife-Battery

The Sociological Review ◽

10.1111/j.1467-954x.1983.tb00096.x ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 31 (1_suppl) ◽

pp. 60-76

Author(s):

Patricia A. Morgan

Keyword(s):

Social Problem ◽

State Intervention ◽

The United States ◽

The State ◽

Structural Position ◽

Wife Battering ◽

The Social ◽

Class Context ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Cost

Patricia Morgan's paper describes what happens when the state intervenes in the social problem of wife-battering. Her analysis refers to the United States, but there are clear implications for other countries, including Britain. The author argues that the state, through its social problem apparatus, manages the image of the problem by a process of bureaucratization, professionalization and individualization. This serves to narrow the definition of the problem, and to depoliticize it by removing it from its class context and viewing it in terms of individual pathology rather than structure. Thus refuges were initially run by small feminist collectives which had a dual objective of providing a service and promoting among the women an understanding of their structural position in society. The need for funds forced the groups to turn to the state for financial aid. This was given, but at the cost to the refuges of losing their political aims. Many refuges became larger, much more service-orientated and more diversified in providing therapy for the batterers and dealing with other problems such as alcoholism and drug abuse. This transformed not only the refuges but also the image of the problem of wife-battering.

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