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By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351310260
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 361.1
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Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Typification and Social Problems Construction -- PART I Claims -- 2 Horror Stories and the Construction of Child Abuse -- 3 Stalking Strangers and Lovers: Changing Media Typifications of a New Crime Problem -- 4 Rethinking Medicalization: Alcoholism and Anomalies -- 5 The Moral Drama of Multicultural Education -- PART II Claimsmakers -- 6 Clergy Sexual Abuse: The Symbolic Politics of a Social Problem -- 7 The Social Construction of Infertility: From Private Matter to Social Concern -- 8 The Crack Attack: America's Latest Drug Scare, 1986-1992 -- PART III Connections -- 9 "All We Want Is Equality": Rhetorical Framing in the Fathers' Rights Movement -- 10 Hate Crimes in the United States: The Transformation of Injured Persons into Victims and the Extension of Victim Status to Multiple Constituencies -- 11 Down on the Farm: Rationale Expansion in the Construction of Factory Farming as a Social Problem -- PART IV Policies -- 12 Writing Rights: The "Homeless Mentally III and Involuntary Hospitalization -- 13 Creativity, Conflict, and Control: Film Industry Campaigns to Shape Video Policy -- 14 Cold Wars, Evil Empires, Treacherous Japanese: Effects of International Context on Problem Construction -- AFTERWORD -- 15 Constructionism in Context -- Index.
Summary: Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention.
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Typification and Social Problems Construction -- PART I Claims -- 2 Horror Stories and the Construction of Child Abuse -- 3 Stalking Strangers and Lovers: Changing Media Typifications of a New Crime Problem -- 4 Rethinking Medicalization: Alcoholism and Anomalies -- 5 The Moral Drama of Multicultural Education -- PART II Claimsmakers -- 6 Clergy Sexual Abuse: The Symbolic Politics of a Social Problem -- 7 The Social Construction of Infertility: From Private Matter to Social Concern -- 8 The Crack Attack: America's Latest Drug Scare, 1986-1992 -- PART III Connections -- 9 "All We Want Is Equality": Rhetorical Framing in the Fathers' Rights Movement -- 10 Hate Crimes in the United States: The Transformation of Injured Persons into Victims and the Extension of Victim Status to Multiple Constituencies -- 11 Down on the Farm: Rationale Expansion in the Construction of Factory Farming as a Social Problem -- PART IV Policies -- 12 Writing Rights: The "Homeless Mentally III and Involuntary Hospitalization -- 13 Creativity, Conflict, and Control: Film Industry Campaigns to Shape Video Policy -- 14 Cold Wars, Evil Empires, Treacherous Japanese: Effects of International Context on Problem Construction -- AFTERWORD -- 15 Constructionism in Context -- Index.

Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention.

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