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Constructing the Social

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"Constructing the Social" provides a clear overview on how to do social constructionist research and analysis and an understanding of the concrete implications of social constructionist theory. Each chapter analyzes the historical and cultural contexts of a wide range of key issues including anxiety, the family, intelligence, ageing and depression. The contributors demonstrate that human beings are social agents rather passive reactors or mere processors of information.
Prologue - Theodore R Sarbin and John I Kitsuse PART ONE: PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AS SOURCES OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS The Social Construction of Personal Histories - Mary Gergen Gendered Lives in Popular Autobiographies The Social Construction of Pregnancy and Fetal Development - Carol Brooks Gardner Notes on a Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Endangerment Correspondents' Images of Martin Luther King Jr - Stephen J Lilley and Gerald M Platt An Interpretive Theory of Movement Leadership PART TWO: SOCIOPOLITICAL FACTORS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL CATEGORIES Practices of Truth-Finding in a Court of Law - Kim Lane Scheppele The Case of Revised Stories Gender, Science and Sexual Dysfunction - Mary Boyle The Many and Varied Social Constructions of Intelligence - Milton L Andersen Some Constructionist Observations on `Anxiety' and its History - Richard S Hallam PART THREE: THE DECONSTRUCTION OF POPULAR CONCEPTIONS Genius - Tia DeNora and Hugh Mehan A Social Construction, the Case of Beethoven's Initial Recognition Ageism and the Deployments of `Age' - Christopher L Bodily A Constructionist View Cocaine Careers - Karl E Scheibe Historical and Individual Constructions A Sociocultural Construction of `Depressions' - Morton Wiener and David Marcus Constructing Family - James A Holstein and Jaber F Gubrium Descriptive Practice and Domestic Order
`Provides diverse examples of constructionist analysis in practice, thereby illuminating both its virtues and its vices' - Reviewing Sociology
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