Perspectives on Social Problems: v. 7
Published in September 1995
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-1-55938-946-4 (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
Width: 150 mm
Weight
685 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55938-946-4 (9781559389464)
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Content
Part 1 Popular culture: Claims-making and the moral discourse of hard core rap music, John Lynxwiler and Catherine DeCorte; Learning for two: a study in the rhetoric of pregnancy practices, Carol Brooks Gardner; The anatomy of an obituary: "Rock Hudson dies at 59 after fighting aids, Wayne Martin Mellinger. Part 2 Occupational perspectives: Social problems as work: moral construction, phenomenological application, and work-a-day Labour market positions, Williams S. Tregea; Is pharmacy really an "incomplete profession"? Robert Dingwall and Eileen Wilson; Contested turf: a case study of professional claims-making in California's legislative arena, Judith Richlin-Klonsky; Employees by design: the corporatization of the self, Catherine Casey. Part 3 Issues in social problems: The tainted relationship: the commercial blood plasma industry and the homeless in the United States, Leon Anderson and David A. Snow; Heads on beds: toward a critical ethnography of the selling of psychiatric hospitalization, Bruce Luske and Henry W. Vandenburgh; Holocautism: the emergence of a new religious movement, Gary Brock and Marvin Prosono; Subordination and struggle: social movement dynamics and processes of inequality, Vincent, J. Roscigno and Cynthia D. Anderson; using qualitative research to study decision making in the child protective service system, Patricia G. Tjaden. Part 4 Social problems in Japan: Social constructionism in Japan: toward an indigenous empirical inquiry, Nobutoshi Nakagawa; The construction of juvenile delinquency as a social problem in post World War II Japan, Jun Ayukawa.