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This text highlights contemporary debates within the constructionist perspective. It distills the ongoing debates, offering compelling suggestions for how today's challenges might be met, and pointing directions for the future. This collection of classic and original essays critiques previous constructionist formulations makes suggestions for advancing, expanding and diversifying the constructionist agenda and challenges the perspective to move in new directions. It signals concerns and choices that constructionists must confront if their voices will continue to be heard in the 21st century.

Table of Contents:
Introduction A Fork in the Road: Challenges and Choices in Social Constructionism I Enduring Challenges 1. Claims-Making Discourse and Vernacular Resources 2. But Seriously Folks: The Limitations of the Strict Constructionist Interpretation of Social Problems 3. Social Constructionism and Social Problems Work 4. Claims-Making from the Underside: Marginalization and Social Problems Analysis 5. Conditions, People, Morality, and Emotion: Expanding the Agenda of Constructionism II Contemporary Choices 6. Staying Alive: Prospects for Constructionist Theory 7. Interactional Dynamics in Public Problems Marketplaces: Movements and the Counterframing and Reframing of Public Problems 8. A Constructionist Analytics for Social Problems 9. Explaining Social Problems: Addressing the Whys of Social Constructionism 10. Getting Serious about an Applied Constructionism of Social Problems

About the Author :
James A. Holstein and Gale Miller are professors in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780202306964
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: AldineTransaction
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 268
  • Sub Title: Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0202306968
  • Publisher Date: 31 Aug 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Social Problems & Social Issues
  • Weight: 521 gr


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