ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses that Edwin Lemert's findings may be used to revise and extend Richard Fuller and Myers' natural history model. It discusses the original natural history formulation. The chapter presents Lemert's criticism and establishes a more general and less mechanical model of social problems. Fuller and Myers began their discussion of the trailer camp problem with a conception of social problems that emphasized their emergent and dynamic qualities. Fuller and Myers traced the origins of the trailer camp in Detroit to the spring of 1920. In short, Lemert found that trailer camps were designed differently in California than they were in Detroit, and his perspective on the problem was broader. The chapter proposes analytic induction to construct universal empirical generalizations of a class of phenomenon, a collective portrait of elements common to every member of the category.
