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Author:   Gale Miller ,  Gale Miller
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   AldineTransaction
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780202308647

ISBN 10:   0202308642
Pages:   572
Publication Date:   15 October 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: 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; 6: Revised Social Constructionism: Traditional Social Science More Than a Postmodernist Analysis; 7: 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; 2: New Challenges to Social Constructionism; 13: New Challenges to Social Constructionism: Alternative Perspectives on Social Problems Theory; Critical 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; 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; 24: Social Constructionism and Its Critics: Assessing Recent Challenges

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James A. Holstein is professor in and chair of the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University.

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