The Love Canal: Social Science Research in a Community in Crisis

Abstract

This paper is about some of my experiences as a sociologist, doing research at the Love Canal. The Love Canal remains an important story, because it aroused the consciousness of the world to the human and social consequences of environmental pollution. As an indication of continuing interest in that area, the 25th anniversary ceremonies at the site, early in August 2003, were well attended and publicized nationally by the mass media.

Citation

Levine, A.G. (2007), "The Love Canal: Social Science Research in a Community in Crisis", Edelstein, M.R., Tysiachniouk, M. and Smirnova, L.V. (Ed.) Cultures of Contamination (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0196-1152(06)14001-6