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Thinking About Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives 2nd ed. Edition
Author(s): Donileen R. Loseke (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 31 Mar. 2003
- Edition: 2nd ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 236 pages
- ISBN-10: 0202306844
- ISBN-13: 9780202306841
Book Description
Like the first edition of this distinctive and widely adopted textbook, the new second edition brings into the classroom an overview of how images of social problems can shape not only public policy and social services, but also the ways in which we make sense of ourselves and others. It introduces two primary changes from the first edition. First, this edition devotes some attention to the ”new social movements” that emphasize social change through identity transformation rather than through structural change. Second, it also looks more closely at the importance of emotions in constructing public consciousness of social problems. Although Thinking About Social Problems can be used as a stand-alone short text and a corrective on received notions of studying the objective indicators of one problem a week, Donileen Loseke and Joel Best have provided an accompanying reader, Social Problems: Constructionist Readings, which can be used by those who wish to teach the course with reference to empirical examples of social problems examined from constructionist perspectives. Finally, an instructor’s manual on a CD-ROM will be available for instructors who adopt the new edition.
Editorial Reviews
Review
-Readers will find this book engagingly well written in a personal, unpretentious style, and well informed by the author's knowledge of the professional literature.-
--Lawrence T. Nichols, Contemporary Sociology
"Readers will find this book engagingly well written in a personal, unpretentious style, and well informed by the author's knowledge of the professional literature."
--Lawrence T. Nichols, Contemporary Sociology
"Readers will find this book engagingly well written in a personal, unpretentious style, and well informed by the author's knowledge of the professional literature."
--Lawrence T. Nichols, Contemporary Sociology
About the Author
Donileen R. Loseke, University of South Florida.
