| Description |
xxii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Social problems and social issues |
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Social problems and social issues.
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| Contents |
Horror stories and the construction of child abuse / John M. Johnson -- Dark figures and child victims : statistical claims about missing children / Joel Best -- AIDS and the press : the creation and transformation of a social problem / Edward Albert -- Research rhetoric and the social construction of elder abuse / Eleen A. Baumann -- Learning disabilities, dyslexia, and the medicalization of the classroom / Gerald M. Erchak and Richard Rosenfeld -- The social construction of infertility : from private matter to social concern / Shirley A. Scritchfield -- The crack attack : politics and media in America's latest drug scare / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Popular music as a social problem : a social history of claims against popular music / Herman Gray |
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The suprising resurgence of the smoking problem / Ronald J. Troyer -- Lost and found : the drunk-driving problem in Finland / H. Laurence Ross -- "Violence" is "violence" ... or is it? : the social construction of "wife abuse" and public policy / Donileen R. Loseke -- Urine testing : the battle for privatized social control during the 1986 war on drugs / William J. Staudenmeier, Jr. -- "A greater threat than the Soviet Union" : Mexican immigration as a social problem / Loy Bilderback -- Afterword : extending the constructionist perspective : a conclusion and an introduction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Social problems in the mass media
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Social problems.
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Sociology.
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| Author |
Best, Joel.
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| LC no. |
89007027 |
| ISBN |
0202303527 |
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0202303535 (paperback) |
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