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Reconsidering social constructionism: debates in social problems theory
Publisher
Aldine de Gruyter
Publication Date
2007, c1993
Language
English
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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.
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9780202304564
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