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Challenges and choices : constructionist perspectives on social problems

James A. Holstein, Gale E. Miller

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This text 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 21st century.

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Key concepts: Strict constructionism, Social constructionism, Perspective (graphical), Epistemology, Sociology, Constructionism, Engineering ethics, Social science