Social Problems & Social Issues
Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities
1st Edition
By John Lofland
December 31, 1996
The authorative and richly detailed handbook is divided into three parts: (1) procedures for studying SMOs; (2) propositions or generalizations about them; and (3) perspectives or wider considerations relating to them. Included are discussions of such basic questions as: What causes SMOs and why do...
Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems
2nd Edition
Edited
By Joel Best
December 31, 1995
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. Th is new ...
Gangbangs and Drive-Bys: Grounded Culture and Juvenile Gang Violence
1st Edition
By William Sanders
December 31, 1994
This study, based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered over a twelve-year period, takes its title from the two predominant styles of gang violence: 'drive-bys,' which have replaced 'rumbles' as the primary form of gang violence; and 'gang-bangs' - a generic term for other gang violence ...
Troubling Children: Studies of Children and Social Problems
1st Edition
By Joel Best
December 31, 1994
Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children– in particular, of younger children. This collection reflects those recent interest. While most researchers have focused on social problems involving adolescents, this volume offers instead original case...
Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment
1st Edition
Edited
By James A. Holstein
December 31, 1993
This book analyzes how hearing participants construct and organize arguments that are legally, psychiatrically, and practically accountable. It argues that commitment decisions orient to the "tenability" of situations that patients pose as alternatives to hospitalization....
The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry
1st Edition
By Stuart A. Kirk
June 30, 1992
When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition—univer-sally known as DSM-III—embodied a radical new method for identifying psychiatric illness. Kirk and Kutchins challenge the general understanding about the research data and the ...
Mirrors of Madness: Patrolling the Psychic Border
1st Edition
By Bruce Luske
December 31, 1990
Mirrors of Madness depicts the social-psychological processes and institutional consequences of psychiatric staffs experience of "closet insanity" (private worries about theirown social and psychological competence) and "reverse role modeling" (identification with their labeled psychotic clients' ...