Perspectives on Social Problems: v. 4
Published in February 1993
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-1-55938-559-6 (ISBN)
Description
Offering different perspectives on social problems, this volume covers: rhetoric in the debate over Asian American student admissions; discourses of abortion among pro-choice women; asylums and the social control of the mentally ill; the politics of antiwar protest; and homicides by women.
Offering different perspectives on social problems, this volume covers: rhetoric in the debate over Asian American student admissions; discourses of abortion among pro-choice women; asylums and the social control of the mentally ill; the politics of antiwar protest; and homicides by women.
Offering different perspectives on social problems, this volume covers: rhetoric in the debate over Asian American student admissions; discourses of abortion among pro-choice women; asylums and the social control of the mentally ill; the politics of antiwar protest; and homicides by women.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55938-559-6 (9781559385596)
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Content
Part 1 Social problems discourse: the burden of facts - rhetoric in the debate over Asian American student admissions, Dana Y. Takagi; hearing talk - accomplishing answers and generating facts, Timothy Halkowski; accomplishing fact in police dispatch packages - the situated construction of an organizational record, Wayne Martin Mellinger; pro-choice voices - discourses of abortion among pro-choice women, Andrea L. Press and Elizabeth R. Cole; constructing Americans - becoming American, loyalty and Japanese internment during World War II, Gina Petonito. Part 2 Mental illness and psychiatry: family management of labelled mental illness in a deinstitutionalized era - an exploratory study, Allan V. Horwitz and Susan Reinhard; Goffman's asylums and the social control of the mentally ill, William Gronfein; psychiatric diagnosis as sign and symbol - nomenclature as an organizing and legitimating strategy, Patricia H. Thornton. Part 3 Studies in social problems: a method for murder - the study of homicides by women, Nancy C. Jurik and Peter Gregware; kinship claims - affiliations and disclosure of stigma in public places, Carol Brooks Gardner; Vietnam veterans against the war - the politics of antiwar protest, Wilbur J. Scott; living, loving and labouring - sexual division of labour and Durkenheimian functionalism, Ruth A. Pigott; societal punishment and social stratification - an historical analysis, Christopher Adamson.