Constructing Social Problems

Name: Constructing Social Problems
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ISBN: 9780765807168

ISBN-10: 0765807165

ISBN-13: 9780765807168

Edition: 2000

Authors: Malcolm Spector, John I. Kitsuse

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List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction to the Transaction Edition



Introduction


Social Problems: Some Examples


Definitions of Words


The Library of Congress Treatment of Homosexuality


The Yellow Pages


Psychiatric Nomenclature on Homosexuality


Some Related Lines of Investigation



Functional and Normative Definitions


The Functional Etiological Approach


The Normative Approach


Whose Normative Standards?


Conclusion



The Value-Conflict School


Inconsistencies in the Value-Conflict Position


Recent Value-Conflict Writings



Social Problems and Deviance: Some Parallels


Labeling Theory


Interpretation


Conclusion



Social Problems as Claims-Making Activities


Social Problems as Activities


A Definition of Social Problems


Claims-Making Activities


Kinds of Questions about Claims


The Role of Values


Summary



The Description and Analysis of Social Problems Activities: An Extended Empirical Example


Social Problems as Activities: What Would the Research Look Like?


Social Problems in the American Psychiatric Association: A Case Study


Concluding Remarks



The Natural History of Social Problems


Trailer Camps in Detroit


Lemert's Replication


Induction and Generalization


Emergence and Development


Natural History of Social Problems: A Reformulation


Some Further Considerations


Is There a Natural History of Social Problems?



Teaching Social Problems



Recognizing and Defining Social Problems



Social Problems Activities



Social Reformers and Crusaders



A Legislative History



Subject Indexes as Data



The Experts


Difficulties of the Perspective


References


Name Index


Subject Index