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While many scholars in sociology, communication, media studies, public policy, psychotherapy, and criminology use social construction perspectives in their own research, these perspectives tend not to be adequately covered in popular college-level texts. This book can bring constructionist perspectives into college classrooms because it offers an accessible overview of these perspectives that is interdisciplinary in scope and historically current in examples. The topics cover a broad range of issues including how successful images of social problem conditions, victims, and villains are constructed; how these images shape public policy and social services; and how these images can change the ways we make sense of ourselves and others. In focusing on what constructionist examination tells readers about their own lives, this book encourages critical reasoning skills; it encourages readers to become thoughtful and knowledgeable consumers of all talk about social problems and to think about the individual, social, and political consequences of the process of constructing public worry.
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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.
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“Readers will find this book engagingly well written in a personal, unpretentious style, and well informed by the author’s knowledge of the professional literature.”
—Lawrence T. Nichols, Contemporary Sociology
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- PublisherAldine de Gruyter
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0202306208
- ISBN 13 9780202306209
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages227
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