Homelessness, Aids, and Stigmatization: The Nimby Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century

by Lois M. Takahashi

In AIDS, Homelessness, and Stigmatization, Lois Takahashi takes a close look at the social forces behind local-level community opposition to human service facilities associated with homelessness and AIDS. Using both quantitative and qualitative data and methods, She argues that this community opposition is a product of the changing social construction of stigma, or the ways in which we define who is acceptable and who is not. The book demonstrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198233620
• ISBN13: 9780198233626
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"