TY  - BOOK
AU  - Best,Joel
TI  - Images of issues: typifying contemporary social problems
T2  - [Social problems and social issues]
SN  - 0202303527
AV  - HN28 .I46 1989
U1  - 361.1 20
PY  - 1989///
CY  - New York
PB  - Aldine de Gruyter
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Local
KW  - Sociology
N1  - Includes bibliographies and index; 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; 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
ER  -