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Thinking About Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives (Social Problems and Social Issues) - Hardcover
Synopsis
A textbook introducing the approach to undergraduates early in their study of such subjects as social problems, sociology, family violence, and women's lives; most students are not exposed to it until the advanced undergraduate or even graduate levels. For readers who know little about social constructivism and will not necessary embrace it, explains the notion that people create, that is construct, problems, as opposed to the conventional idea that problems are objective realities that people encounter. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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About the Author
Donileen R. Loseke is professor of sociology at the University of South Florida. A past president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, she is the author of The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse, and coeditor (with Richard Gelles) of Current Controversies on Family Violence.
Review
"...[E]ngagingly well written in a personal, unpretentious style, and well informed by the author's knowledge of the professional literature..." -- Contemporary Sociology, March 2000
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