Constructionist Studies of Social Problems: How We Got Here, and Where We Ought to Go

The principal theory of social problems (at least in the United States) is the social constructionist perspective, which defines social problem in terms of a claimsmaking process, rather than as a type of social condition. This perspective emerged in the 1970s, and its spread has led to many hundred...

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Main Author: Joel Best
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Firenze University Press 2018-12-01
Series:SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia
Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/smp/article/view/10569