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_b.I46 1989
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245 0 0 _aImages of issues
_btypifying contemporary social problems
_cedited by Joel Best.
260 _aNew York
_bAldine de Gruyter
_cc1989.
300 _axxii, 257 p.
_bill.
_c24 cm.
490 0 _a[Social problems and social issues]
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504 _aIncludes bibliographies and index.
505 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.
505 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.
650 0 _aSocial problems.
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650 0 _aSociology
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_9172106
700 1 0 _aBest, Joel
_2LEMB
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