Perspectives on Social Problems: v. 6
Published in December 1994
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-1-55938-880-1 (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
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55938-880-1 (9781559388801)
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Content
Part 1 Social problems work: constructing serious violence and its victims - processing a domestic violence restraining order, Robert M. Emerson; homeless in River City - client work in human service encounters, J. William Spencer; bringing the patient back in - the rhetoric of victimization and medical malpractice, William Gronfein and Eleanor Kinney; gender, social problems work, and everyday philanthropy among strangers, Carol Brooks Gardner. Part 2 Constructing social problems: speak of the devil - talk shows and the social construction of Satanism, Kathleen Lowney; the construction and repeal of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, T. Memoree Thibodeau. Part 3 Inequality and gender: in the face of multiple oppressions - the dynamics of race and class in two US women's movements, Steven M. Buechler; a politics of anatomy - women's work roles in early undertaking, Georganne Rundblad; narrative resistance to deviance - identity management among strip-tease dancers, Carol Ramno Ronai. Part 3 Issues in social problems: unanticipated consequences of criminalization - hypotheses on how drug laws exacerbate drug problems, Craig Reinerman; toward a sociology and a science of the Holocaust - a symbolic interactionist/pragmatist commentary on Holocaust denial and anti-denial, Marvin Prosano; the English careers officer - an honest broker?, Daniel Lawrence.