Perspectives on Social Problems: v. 10

Part 1 Social problems in film: social problems and the reel thing - constructionism at the river's edge, Peter R. Ibarra; reading the cinema of racial violence, Norman K. Denzin; the psycho-femme thriller - a woman's place, Carol Y. Thompson. Part 2 Deaf culture and social problems: being deaf has very little to do with one's ears - boundary work in the deaf culture, Mitch Berbrier; renouncing hope and the rhetoric of deaf culture, Malin Akerstrom, Part 3 Teaching social problems: are we all dumb cattle to be branded and corralled? - social inequality and praxis in the college classroom, Bruce Luske; teaching a "social problem" - the place of "homosexuality" in introductory sociology texts, Robert J. Frienbus. Part 4 Studies in social problems: "homelessness" as narrative redemption, Amir Marvasti; shuffling off to Armageddon - social problems in text and context, Richard G. Mitchell Jr; in search of American maturity - alternatives to romance in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", Nadesan Permaul; saying goodbye to midwest state - notes on leavetaking and institutions, Carol Brooks Gardner and William P. Gronfein; altruism amidst the holocaust - an integrated theory, Ronald J. Berger et al; the symbolic war on pothunters - from preservation to prosecution, Ted Knowles and John M. Johnson.