دانلود کتاب Thinking About Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface to the Second Edition Part I: Issues in Studying Social Problems 1 Examining Social Problems What Is a Social Problem? Social Problems as Objective Conditions The Construction of Social Life and Social Problems Social Construction Questions about Social Problems An Invitation to Social Construction Perspectives on Social Problems 2 Claims-Makers and Audiences Claims and Claims-Making Audiences Claims-Makers and the Social Problems Industry Social Problems Activists as Claims-Makers Scientists as Claims-Makers Mass Media as Claims-Makers Relationships among Claims-Makers Social Problem Claims-Makers and Audiences Part II: Constructing Packages of Claims 3 Constructing Conditions The Social Contexts of Social Problems Work Social Problems Work: Constructing Grounds Social Problems Work: Constructing Diagnostic Frames Social Problems Work: Constructing Motivational Frames Appealing to Logic Social Problems Work: Constructing Social Problem Ownership The Social Problems Work of Constructing Conditions 4 Constructing People Social Problems Work: Constructing Motivational Frames Appealing to Emotion Social Problems Work: Constructing Victims Deserving Sympathy Social Problems Work: Constructing Villains Deserving Condemnation Social Problems Work: Packaging Claims As Stones The Social Problems Work of Constructing People 5 Constructing Solutions Constructing Prognostic Frames The Social Contexts of Public Policy Social Problems Work: Government Policy Construction Social Problems Work and Cultural Change The Social Problems Work of Constructing Solutions Part III: From Social Constructions to Social Actions 6 Social Problems and Everyday Life Successful Claims and Social Change Social Problems Work in Daily Life Personal Identities and Collective Identities Social Problems and Social Change 7 Social Problems and Troubled People Social Problems Formula Stones and the Troubled Persons Industry Workers and Clients in the Troubled Persons Industry Social Problems Work: Categorizing Potential Clients Social Problems Work: Encouraging Identity Change The Troubled Persons Industry and Reproducing Social Problems Social Problems and Social Interventions 8 Evaluating Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems Objectivist and Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems Lessons Learned from Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems Practical Actors and Social Problems Appendix: Social Construction Theories and Issues Justifications for Social Construction Perspectives on Social Problems Challenges to Constructionist Theory References Index