Challenges and Choices: Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems / Edition 1

by Gale Miller, James Holstein

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202306971
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	08/31/2003
Series:	Social Problems & Social Issues
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

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