Perspectives on Social Problems: v. 5
Published in May 1994
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-1-55938-740-8 (ISBN)
Description
This series is designed to foster debates on the sociology of social problems by presenting a forum where sociologists of this discipline can present and argue opposed positions on epistemological, moral and political issues that are central to the field.
This series is designed to foster debates on the sociology of social problems by presenting a forum where sociologists of this discipline can present and argue opposed positions on epistemological, moral and political issues that are central to the field.
This series is designed to foster debates on the sociology of social problems by presenting a forum where sociologists of this discipline can present and argue opposed positions on epistemological, moral and political issues that are central to the field.
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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
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55938-740-8 (9781559387408)
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Content
Exploitations of presence - gender and nonverbal harrasssment in public places, Carol Brooks Gardner; convergence of the twain - race, romance and the Columbian moment, Nadesan Permaul; debunking the drug scare - a rhetorical analysis, Gary Dean Jaworski; stigma and charisma in the rhetoric of terrorism, William J. Swart; power, discourse and social problems - social problems from a rhetorical perspective, Robert J. Brulle; theories of revolution and the case of Iran, John Foran; who do you claim? - gang formation and rivalry in an inner city public high school, David C. Brotherton; symbolic territoriality and the Holocaust - the controversy over the Carmelite Convent at Auschwitz, Marvin Prosono; the social construction of American vocational education, Shan Nelson-Rowe.