Overview

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.

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Author:   James A. Holstein ,  Gale Miller
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   AldineTransaction
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9780202306964

ISBN 10:   0202306968
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   31 August 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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

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