Unraveling the social construction of homelessness

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 319-333

  Cronley, Courtney ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeless; Individualism; Social construction; Structuralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949334880     PISSN: 10911359     EISSN: 15403556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10911350903269955     Document Type: Article

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