Constructing the Social

1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-8039-8680-0
Verlag: Sage Publications UK

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Reihe: Inquiries in Social Construction series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarbin, Theodore R

Kitsuse, John I

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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