Challenges and Choices: Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems (Social Problems and Social Issues)

Book Description:

Challenges and Choices highlights contemporary debates within the constructionist perspective. It distills the ongoing debates, offering compelling suggestions for how today?s challenges might be met, and pointing directions for the future. This collection of classic and original essays critiques previous constructionist formulations, makes suggestions for advancing, expanding, and diversifying the constructionist agenda, and challenges the perspective to move in new directions. It signals concerns and choices that constructionists must confront if their voices will continue to be heard in the twenty-first century.