Research Catalog

Title

Redefining social problems / edited by Edward Seidman and Julian Rappaport.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, ©1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Seidman, Edward
• Rappaport, Julian

Description

xxii, 311 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Perspectives in social psychology

Uniform Title

Perspectives in social psychology

Subject

• Social problems > Congresses
• Social psychology > Congresses
• Social conditions
• Social problems
• Social psychology
• Soziale Probleme
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Sociale problemen
• Problèmes sociaux
• Psychologie sociale
• United States > Social conditions > Congresses
• United States
• USA
• États-Unis > Conditions sociales

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Published under the auspices of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Framing the issues / Edward Seidman and Julian Rappaport -- Frameworks for redefining social problems -- The nature of social problem solving in social action / Seymour B. Sarason -- Small wins: redefining the scale of social issues / Karl E. Weick -- Making sense of injustice: social explanations, social action, and the role of the social scientist / Louise H. Kidder and Michelle Fine -- Women as a social problem: conceptual and practical issues in defining social problems / Nancy M. Henley -- Rethinking demographic deviance -- Defining black families: past and present / Diane Scott-Jones & Sharon Nelson-Le Gall -- Positive marginality: the experience of black women leaders / Althea Smith -- Debunking the myth of loneliness in late life / Tracey A. Revenson -- Rethinking systems for action -- In praise of paradox: a social policy of empowerment over prevention / Julian Rappaport -- Child custody determination: Ideological dimensions of a social problem / Linda K. Girdner -- Crime as stress: On the internalization of a social problem / Dan A. Lewis & Stephanie Riger -- Examining criminal justice interventions: the myth of reform / Ronald Roesch & Denise J. Foisy -- Different ways of thinking about burnout / Cary Cherniss -- Alternative research agendas -- Justice, values, and social science: unexamined premises / Edward Seidman -- Court-ordered school desegregation: shuffling the deck or playing a different game / Jean Ann Linney -- Indirect effedts of desegregation / Richard R. Scott -- Reappraisal of ethnic minority issues: research alternatives / Nolan Zane & Stanley Sue.

ISBN

• 030642052X
• 9780306420528

LCCN

85028217

OCLC

• ocm12942385
• 12942385
• SCSB-636942

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library