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1 online resource (573 pages) |
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Social problems and social issues |
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Social problems and social issues.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I: Debates Within Social Constructionism; Revising the Constructionist Project; 1. Reconsidering Social Constructionism; 2. Vernacular Constituents of Moral Discourse: An Interactionist Proposal for the Study of Social Problems; 3. The 1960s State as Social Problem: An Analysis of Radical Right and New Left Claims-Making Rhetorics; Constructionist Responses; 4. For a Cautious Naturalism; 5. ""Members Only"": Reading the Constructionist Text |
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6. Revised Social Constructionism: Traditional Social Science More Than a Postmodernist Analysis7. But Seriously Folks: The Limitations of the Strict Constructionist Interpretation of Social Problems; Ethnomethodological Concerns; 8. Social Constructionism and Social Problems Work; 9. Social Problems and the Organization of Talk and Interaction; 10. The Reflexivity of Constructionism and the Construction of Reflexivity; 11. Do We Need a General Theory of Social Problems?; Conclusion; 12. Reconstituting the Constructionist Program; Part II: New Challenges to Social Constructionism |
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13. New Challenges to Social Constructionism: Alternative Perspectives on Social Problems TheoryCritical Challenges; 14. The Problem with Social Problems: From Social Constructionism to Critical Theory; 15. Twenty-Two Theses on Social Constructionism: A Feminist Response to Ibarra and Kitsuse's Proposal for the Study of Social Problems -- 16. Literacy and Business: Social Problems as Social Organization; Poststructuralist Challenges; 17. Claims-Making from the Underside: Marginalization and Social Problems Analysis |
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18. (De)Construction, Postmodernism, and Social Problems: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies at the ""End of History""19. Revenge of the Parasites feeding off the ruins of sociological (de)construction; 20. Panic Diary: (re)constructing a partial politics and poetics of dis-ease; Representational Challenges; 21. Constructionism and Practices of Objectivity; 22. Moral Mimesis and Political Power: Toward a Rhetorical Understanding of Deviance, Social Control, and Civic Discourse; 23. How Come Prose? The Writing of Social Problems; Conclusion |
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24. Social Constructionism and Its Critics: Assessing Recent ChallengesIndex |
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Print version record |
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Social problems.
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social issues.
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Social problems
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Holstein, James A
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| ISBN |
9781351494434 |
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1351494430 |
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