Constructing the Social / Edition 1

by Theodore R Sarbin, John I Kitsuse

Overview

This comprehensive volume explores the concrete implications of social constructionist theory, and provides a clear overview of how to do social constructionist research and analysis.

Leading psychologists and sociologists ground theory with practical examples to clearly illustrate the view that human beings are principally social agents rather than passive reactors or information processors. Each chapter analyzes the historical and cultural contexts implicit in a wide range of key issues including anxiety, the family, intelligence, ageing and depression.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803986794
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/21/1994
Series:	Inquiries in Social Construction Series , #12
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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 De Nora 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

Editorial Reviews

'Provides diverse examples of constructionist analysis in practice, thereby illuminating both its virtues and its vices' - Reviewing Sociology

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