Reconsidering social constructionism: debates in social problems theory

Pt. I. Debates Within Social Constructionism

Revising the Constructionist Project

1. Reconsidering Social Constructionism / Gale Miller and James A. Holstein

2. Vernacular Constituents of Moral Discourse: An Interactionist Proposal for the Study of Social Problems / Peter R. Ibarra and John I. Kitsuse

3. 1960s State as Social Problem: An Analysis of Radical Right and New Left Claims-Making Rhetorics / Carol A. B. Warren

Constructionist Responses

4. For a Cautious Naturalism / Jaber F. Gubrium

5. "Members Only": Reading the Constructionist Text / Joseph W. Schneider

6. Revised Social Constructionism: Traditional Social Science More Than a Postmodernist Analysis / Ronald J. Troyer

7. But Seriously Folks: The Limitations of the Strict Constructionist Interpretation of Social Problems / Joel Best

Ethnomethodological Concerns

8. Social Constructionism and Social Problems Work / James A. Holstein and Gale Miller

9. Social Problems and the Organization of Talk and Interaction / Courtney L. Marlaire and Douglas W. Maynard

10. Reflexivity of Constructionism and Construction of Reflexivity / Melvin Pollner

11. Do We Need a General Theory of Social Problems? / David Bogen and Michael Lynch

Conclusion

12. Reconstituting the Constructionist Program / James A. Holstein and Gale Miller

Pt. II. New Challenges to Social Constructionism

13. New Challenges to Social Constructionism: Alternative Perspectives on Social Problems Theory / Gale Miller

Critical Challenges

14. Problem with Social Problems: From Social Constructionism to Critical Theory / Ben Agger

15. Twenty-Two Theses on Social Constructionism: A Feminist Response to Ibarra and Kitsuse's "Proposal for the Study of Social Problems" / Avery F. Gordon

16. "Literacy" and Business: "Social Problems" as Social Organization / Dorothy E. Smith

Poststructuralist Challenges

17. Claims-Making from the Underside: Marginalization and Social Problems Analysis / Leslie J. Miller

18. (De)Construction, Postmodernism, and Social Problems: Facts, Fiction, and Fantasies at the "End of History" / Raymond J. Michalowski

19. Revenge of the Parasites: feeding off the ruins of sociological (de)construction / Stephen Pfohl

20. Panic Diary: (re)constructing a partial politics and poetics of dis-ease / Jackie Orr

Representational Challenges

21. Constructionism and Practices of Objectivity / Lawrence E. Hazelrigg

22. Moral Mimesis and Political Power: Toward a Rhetorical Understanding of Deviance, Social Control, and Civic Discourse / Richard Harvey Brown

23. How Come Prose? The Writing of Social Problems / Laurel Richardson

Conclusion

24. Social Constructionism and Its Critics: Assessing Recent Challenges / Gale Miller and James A. Holstein.