Social Problems & Social Issues
Framing the Victim: Domestic Violence, Media, and Social Problems
1st Edition
By Nancy S. Berns
January 30, 2004
"Whether you are drawn to this book because of an interest in media, social problems, or domestic violence, reading it will help you better understand the impact media stories have on our perceptions of social problems." That is how Nancy Berns introduces her book. It is a work that unabashedly ...
Challenges and Choices: Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems
1st Edition
Edited
By James A. Holstein, Gale Miller
August 31, 2003
The social constructionist perspective has revolutionized the way that social scientists investigate social problems. Constructing Social Problems (Spector and Kitsuse [1977] 2001) offered the guiding statement of the approach, which both transformed and revitalized the sociology of social problems...
Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Murphy
August 31, 2003
Qualitative researchers have traditionally been cautious about claiming that their work was scientific. The "right-on" schools have exaggerated this caution into an outright rejection of science as a model for their work. Science is, for them, outmoded; "an archaic form of consciousness surviving ...
Punishment and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger
2nd Edition
Edited
By Stanley Cohen
July 31, 2003
While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This concept has a rather mixed lineage. "After ...
Thinking About Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives
2nd Edition
By Donileen R. Loseke
March 31, 2003
The new second edition of this distinctive and widely adopted textbook 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. ...
Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality
2nd Edition
By William Simon
December 31, 2002
The first edition of Sexual Conduct, published in 1973, swiftly became a landmark text in the sociology of sexuality. It went on to profoundly shape the ideas of several generations of scholars and has become the foundation text of what is now known as the "social constructionist" approach to ...
Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture and Criminal Justice
1st Edition
By Jennifer Dunn
September 30, 2002
This book is about women who are coerced, intimidated, and stalked by former intimates. It is about the things these women do to manage this situation, and what happens to them as a consequence. Stalking is a behavior that has relatively recently been defined as problematic, and as criminal when ...
Drug Courts: In Theory and in Practice
1st Edition
By Jr. Nolan
September 30, 2002
Drug courts offer offenders an intensive court-based treatment program as an alternative to the normal adjudication process. Begun in 1989, they have since spread dramatically throughout the United States. In this interdisciplinary examination of the expanding movement, a distinguished panel of ...
The Fight Against Big Tobacco: The Movement, the State and the Public's Health
1st Edition
By Mark Wolfson
October 31, 2001
Tobacco control leaders were extremely proud of the movement's achievements in the state of Minnesota. In sharing their perspectives and experiences with Mark Wolfson, they found a way of making sure that the story would get told. His training in social movements had given him an appreciation of ...
Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness
1st Edition
By Jeffery Sobal
October 31, 1999
What is "too fat?" "Too thin"? Interpretations of body weight vary widely across and within cultures. Meeting weight expectations is a major concern for many people because failing to do so may incur dire social consequences, such as difficulty in finding a romantic partner or even in locating ...
Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffery Sobal
October 31, 1999
Many people consider their weight to be a personal problem; when, then, does body weight become a social problem? Until recently, the major public concern was whether enough food was consistently available. As food systems began to provide ample and stable amounts of food, questions about food ...
Becoming Miracle Workers: Language and Learning in Brief Therapy
1st Edition
By Gale Miller
December 31, 1997
Brief therapy is a postmodern treatment mode that treats problems as social constructions, encouraging those seeking treatment to replace personal troubles (negative stories) with new problem-solving skills (positive stories). The significant differences discussed in this book do not involve ...