Images of Issues
Subtitle: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781351310284
Subjects: Social problems; Sociology; Problèmes sociaux; Sociologie; Social issues
Description: "Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By typifying a problem and characterizing it as a particular sort, claimsmakers can shape policymaking and public response to the problem. Th is new edition of Images of Issues addresses claimsmaking in the 1990s, featuring such issues as fathers' rights, stalking, sexual abuse by the clergy, hate crimes, multicultural education, factory farming, and concluding with an expanded discussion of the theoretical debate over constructionism."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Part, Introduction --; title: chapter 1 Typification and Social Problems Construction --; title: part, I Claims --; title: part, II Claimsmakers --; title: chapter 2 Horror Stories and the Construction of Child Abuse  -- John M. Johnson; title: chapter 3 Stalking Strangers and Lovers: Changing Media Typifications of a New Crime Problem  -- Kathleen S. Lowney Joel Best; title: chapter 4 Rethinking Medicalization: Alcoholism and Anomalies  -- Lynn M. Appleton; title: chapter 5 The Moral Drama of Multicultural Education  -- Shan Nelson-Rowe; title: part, III Connections --; title: chapter 6 Clergy Sexual Abuse: The Symbolic Politics of a Social Problem  -- Philip Jenkins; title: chapter 7 The Social Construction of Infertility: From Private Matter to Social Concern  -- Shirley A. Scritchfield; title: chapter 8 The Crack Attack: America's Latest Drug Scare, 1986-1992  -- Craig Reinarman Harry G. Levine; title: part, IV Policies --; title: chapter 9 "All We Want Is Equality": Rhetorical Framing in the Fathers' Rights Movement  -- Gwyneth I. Williams Rhys H. Williams; title: chapter 10 Hate Crimes in the United States: The Transformation of Injured Persons into Victims and the Extension of Victim Status to Multiple Constituencies  -- Valerie Jenness; title: chapter 11 Down on the Farm: Rationale Expansion in the Construction of Factory Farming as a Social Problem  -- Karl R. Kunkel; title: part, Afterword --; title: chapter 12 Writing Rights: The "Homeless Mentally III and Involuntary Hospitalization  -- Donileen R. Loseke; title: chapter 13 Creativity, Conflict, and Control: Film Industry Campaigns to Shape Video Policy  -- David F. Luckenbill; title: chapter 14 Cold Wars, Evil Empires, Treacherous Japanese: Effects of International Context on Problem Construction  -- Lawrence T. Nichols; title: chapter 15 Constructionism in Context.