Social Problems: Constructionist Readings (Paperback)

Preface I. Examining Social ProblemsIntroduction 1 The Changing Meanings of Spanking - Phillip W. Davis2 Bullying as a Social Problem in Great Britain - Frank Furedi3 The Problem with the Earthquake Problem - Robert A. Stallings4 Reality Television Constructs Crime - Gray CavenderII. Claims-Makers and AudiencesIntroduction 5 Audiences Evaluate Statistics - Joel Best6 Promoters of Hate Crime Legislation - Valerie Jenness and Kendal Broad7 Psychiatrists Construct Homosexuality - Stuart A. Kirk and Herb Kutchins8 Television Talk Shows Construct Morality - Kathleen S. LowneyIII. Constructing ConditionsIntroduction 9 Smoking Problems in Japan - Jun Ayukawa10 Crime Frames and their Sponsors - Theodore Sasson11 Framing in the Fathers' Rights Movement - Gwyneth I. Williams and Rhys H. Williams12 Factory Farming as a Social Problem - Karl R. KunkelIV. Constructing PeopleIntroduction 13 The Rhetorical Appeal of Random Violence - Joel Best14 Prostitutes Respond to AIDS - Valerie Jenness15 Science Constructs PMS - Anne E. Figert16 Multicultural Education as Moral Drama - Shan Netson-RoweV. Constructing SolutionsIntroduction 17 The Homeless Mentally 111 and Involuntary Hospitalization - Donileen R. Loseke18 Constructing a War on Drugs - Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine19 Urine Testing and Social Control - William J. Staudenmeier20 The Size Acceptance Movement - Jeffery SobalVI. Social Problems and Everyday LifeIntroduction 21 Constructing the Need for "Low Fat" Food - S. Bryn Austin22 Pregnant Women as a Social Problem - Carol Brooks-Gardner23 Constructing Sexually Marginalized Catholics - Donileen R. Loseke and James C. Cavendish24 The Beliefs of Recovery Religion - Kathleen S. LowneyVII. Social Problems and Troubled PeopleIntroduction 25 Medicalizing Childhood - Dorothy Pawluch26 Teaching Gifted Children - Leslie Margolin27 Constructing Insanity in Involuntary Commitment Hearings - James A. Holstein28 Formula Stories and Support Groups for Battered Women - Donileen'R. LosekeVIII. Evaluating Constructionist Perspectives on Social ProblemsIntroduction 29 "Crack Babies" and the Politics of Mothering - Jacqueline Litt and Maureen McNeil30 The Symbolic Meanings of "Pedophile Priests" - Philip Jenkins31 Horror Stories and the Construction of Child Abuse - John M. Johnson32 Constructing the "Jewish Problem" in Nazi Germany - Ronald J. Berger