Social Problems

by Joel Best

Book Overview

Updated with over 60 new examples and case studies, Social Problems shows how activists, experts, and their opponents frame social problems through the logic that they use; the rhetoric of claims-making; and the ways that access to resources determines who gets their claims heard. Drawing on social constructionist theory, the idea that our experience of reality is created through the interaction and participation of individuals and groups, Joel Best...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393918637
• ISBN13: 9780393918632
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"