02144nam a2200277Ia 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029010001500070020001500085020002200100035002000122040001800142050002000160082001400180245008300194260004000277300003100317490004700348504003900395505077600434505058601210650002801796650002101824700002101845166012BIBL20180724022833.0890509s1989    nyua     b    001 0 eng    a 89007027   a0202303527  a0202303535 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)19774854  aDLCcDLCdPMC00aHN28b.I46 198900a361.122000aImages of issuesbtypifying contemporary social problemscedited by Joel Best.  aNew YorkbAldine de Gruytercc1989.  axxii, 257 p.bill.c24 cm. 0a[Social problems and social issues]2Local  aIncludes bibliographies and index.2 aHorror 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.2 aThe 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. 0aSocial problems.2Local 0aSociology2Local10aBest, Joel2LEMB