The medicalization of homelessness and the sociology of the self: A grounded fractal analysis

Studies in Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 37, Issue , 2011, Pages 29-62

  Wasserman, Jason Adam ^a   Clair, Jeffrey Michael ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ethnography; Fractals; Grounded theory; Homelessness; Identity; Medicalization; Self

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863811740     PISSN: 01632396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0163-2396(2011)0000037004     Document Type: Article

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