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Social problems / Joel Best.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]Copyright date: 2021Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xvi, 400 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393533040
  • 0393533042
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 23
LOC classification:
  • HN28 .B45 2021
Contents:
1. The social problems process -- 2. Claims: case study - battle over bathrooms -- 3. Activists as claimsmakers: case study - fracking and social movements -- 4. Experts as claimsmakers: case study - expertise and opioids -- 5. The media and claims: case study - fake news -- 6. Public relations: case study - how public opinion changes -- 7. Policymaking: case study - popular hazards and policymaking -- 8. Social problems work: case study - campuses deal with sexual assault complaints -- 9. Policy outcomes: case study - walls, dreamers, and immigration policies -- 10. Claims across space and time: case study - statues, flags. and the reconstruction of historical problems -- 11. The uses of the constructionist stance.
Summary: "An important alternative to traditional social problems textbooks, Best's Social Problems seeks to how and why particular conditions come to be constructed as social problems. Walking students through the stages of the social problems process, the best-selling author of Damned Lies and Statistics equips readers with the tools to better analyze what they read and hear about social problems in the media. The Fourth Edition has been updated with new examples and case studies on timely topics such as campus sexual assault, the opioid epidemic, and fake news, helping students connect theory to everyday life"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-376) and index.

1. The social problems process -- 2. Claims: case study - battle over bathrooms -- 3. Activists as claimsmakers: case study - fracking and social movements -- 4. Experts as claimsmakers: case study - expertise and opioids -- 5. The media and claims: case study - fake news -- 6. Public relations: case study - how public opinion changes -- 7. Policymaking: case study - popular hazards and policymaking -- 8. Social problems work: case study - campuses deal with sexual assault complaints -- 9. Policy outcomes: case study - walls, dreamers, and immigration policies -- 10. Claims across space and time: case study - statues, flags. and the reconstruction of historical problems -- 11. The uses of the constructionist stance.

"An important alternative to traditional social problems textbooks, Best's Social Problems seeks to how and why particular conditions come to be constructed as social problems. Walking students through the stages of the social problems process, the best-selling author of Damned Lies and Statistics equips readers with the tools to better analyze what they read and hear about social problems in the media. The Fourth Edition has been updated with new examples and case studies on timely topics such as campus sexual assault, the opioid epidemic, and fake news, helping students connect theory to everyday life"--

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