Cynthia Bogard: The Natural History Of Social Problems

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This academic journal begins on reporting about Cynthia Bogard and her documentation on “The natural history of a Social Problems”. She successfully defined how homelessness came to be social problems in New York City and Washington, D.C. The “iron quadrangle”(player) involved in the issues were activist group, the government, experts, and the mass media. The media (CCNV) was good at creating event that attracted sympathetic coverage and also persuades the nation that only federal action could resolve this problem. But the opposite happened in President Reagan offices, they try to deny the problems and blame it on the homeless instead. Also, city office of New York City likes to write off the issue as deinstitutionalization, that way they handed

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