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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.

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Title: Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems (Social Problems & Social Issues)
Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0202305392
ISBN 13: 9780202305394
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: As New
Dimensions: 2.134 centimeters width by 15.24 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
Weight: 2 grams

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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.

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