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Constructing the Social
Edited by:
- Theodore R Sarbin - University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- John I Kitsuse - University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
December 1993 | 270 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
Theodore R Sarbin and John I Kitsuse
Prologue
PART ONE: PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AS SOURCES OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS
Mary Gergen
The Social Construction of Personal Histories
Carol Brooks Gardner
The Social Construction of Pregnancy and Fetal Development
Stephen J Lilley and Gerald M Platt
Correspondents' Images of Martin Luther King Jr
PART TWO: SOCIOPOLITICAL FACTORS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL CATEGORIES
Kim Lane Scheppele
Practices of Truth-Finding in a Court of Law
Mary Boyle
Gender, Science and Sexual Dysfunction
Milton L Andersen
The Many and Varied Social Constructions of Intelligence
Richard S Hallam
Some Constructionist Observations on `Anxiety' and its History
PART THREE: THE DECONSTRUCTION OF POPULAR CONCEPTIONS
Tia DeNora and Hugh Mehan
Genius
Christopher L Bodily
Ageism and the Deployments of `Age'
Karl E Scheibe
Cocaine Careers
Morton Wiener and David Marcus
A Sociocultural Construction of `Depressions'
James A Holstein and Jaber F Gubrium
Constructing Family
`Provides diverse examples of constructionist analysis in practice, thereby illuminating both its virtues and its vices' - Reviewing Sociology
