Social Problems

Name: Social Problems
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ISBN: 9780393918632

ISBN-10: 0393918637

ISBN-13: 9780393918632

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Joel Best

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Updated with over 60 new examples and case studies, Social Problems shows how activists, experts, and their opponents frame social problems through the logic that they use; the rhetoric of claims-making; and the ways that access to resources determines who gets their claims heard. Drawing on social constructionist theory, the idea that our experience of reality is created through the interaction and participation of individuals and groups, Joel Best helps readers understand the complex competitive process through which problems emerge. In order to help students connect theory to everyday life, Joel Best fills the book with colorful examples and case studies from the real world.

Book details

List price: $49.70
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Joel Best is Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He has published more than twenty books on social problems and deviance, including Threatened Children , Random Violence , Damned Lies and Statistics , and The Student Loan Mess (with Eric Best.)



Figures


Boxes


A Note to the Reader


Acknowledgments



The Social Problems Process



Claims


Case Study Making Claims about Problem Animals and Animal Problems



Activists as Claimsmakers


Case Study Mobilizing against Homophobic Bullying



Experts as Claimsmakers


Case Study The Autism Epidemic and Disputes over Expertise



The Media and Claims


Case Study Reporting about Risk



Public Reaction


Case Study Public Reactions to Immigration



Policymaking


Case Study Health Care as a Policy Challenge



Social Problems Work


Case Study Loan Applications and Financial Collapse



Policy Outcomes


Case Study Technological Change and Policy Outcomes



Claims across Space and Time


Case Study Sexual Trafficking across Space and Time



The Uses of the Constructionist Stance


Glossary


References


Index