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The Micro-Politics of Trouble
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This paper proposes a natural history framework for analyzing interactional processes through which personal difficulties or troubles are identified, reacted to, elaborated, and perhaps transformed into a specific sort of deviance. These processes center around efforts to do something about or remedy the trouble, and are critically shaped by the nature and direction of the intervention of some outside, usually official party. The form a trouble ultimately assumes is in large part a product of micro-political struggles for the support and legitimation of such official agents.
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- Authors
- Emerson, R. M., & Messinger, S. L.
- Venue
- Social Problems
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1977-12
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 121-134
- ISSN
- 0037-7791 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-8533
- OpenAlex
- W2160615605
- Cited by
- 364
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 31.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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