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Images Of Issues : Typifying Contemporary Social Problems
Paperback Edition: 1
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. This 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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Pages : 372
Publisher : Routledge
Publication date : 1995-12-31
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Sociology, Social Issues & Processes