Images of Issues Typifying Contemporary Social Problems

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.

About the author

Joel Best

Summary

Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention

Product details

• Authors: Joel Best, Best Joel
• Assisted by: Joel Best (Editor), Best Joel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 15.11.2017
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics
• EAN: 9781138525726
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52572-6
• Pages: 372
• Series: Social Problems & Social Issues
• Subjects: Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Hate crimes, social constructionism, Young Man, symbolic interactionism, Joint Custody, Title III, moral panic studies, policy discourse analysis, Battered Child Syndrome, advanced social problem analysis, typification theory, claimsmaking processes, Clergy Abuse, Hate Motivated Violence, Ontological Gerrymandering, Social Problems Construction, Constructing Social Problems, Crack Scare, Social Problems Claims, Drug Scare, Domain Expansion, Rationale Expansion, Strict Constructionists, Community Mental Health Policies, Large Scale Piracy, Hate Crimes Statistics Act, MCE Advocate, Psychological Rape