Images of Issues

Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By typifying a problem and characterizing it as a particular sort, claimsmakers can shape policymaking and public response to the problem. Th is new edition of Images of Issues addresses claimsmaking in the 1990s, featuring such issues as fathers' rights, stalking, sexual abuse by the clergy, hate crimes, multicultural education, factory farming, and concluding with an expanded discussion of the theoretical debate over constructionism.

Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Typification and Social Problems Construction	p. 1
Horror Stories and the Construction of Child Abuse	p. 17
Stalking Strangers and Lovers: Changing Media Typifications of a New Crime Problem	p. 33
Rethinking Medicalization: Alcoholism and Anomalies	p. 59
The Moral Drama of Multicultural Education	p. 81
Clergy Sexual Abuse: The Symbolic Politics of a Social Problem	p. 105
The Social Construction of Infertility: From Private Matter to Social Concern	p. 131
The Crack Attack: America's Latest Drug Scare, 1986-1992	p. 147
"All We Want is Equality": Rhetorical Framing in the Fathers' Rights Movement	p. 191
Hate Crimes in the United States: The Transformation of Injured Persons into Victims and the Extension of Victim Status to Multiple Constituencies	p. 213
Down on the Farm: Rationale Expansion in the Construction of Factory Farming as a Social Problem	p. 239
Writing Rights: The "Homeless Mentally Ill" and Involuntary Hospitalization	p. 261
Creativity, Conflict, and Control: Film Industry Campaigns to Shape Video Policy	p. 287
Cold Wars, Evil Empires, Treacherous Japanese: Effects of International Context on Problem Construction	p. 313
Constructionism in Context	p. 337
Biographical Sketches of the Contributors	p. 355
Index	p. 359
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