SOCI 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Constructionism, Typification, Strict Constructionism
24 Oct 2016
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The definitional process: framing: diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational frames. Realism and constructionism: objective harms and situational definitions, each situation is different and can affect a person differently each story is situational. Spector and kitsuse: a sociology of social problems: topic matter, synchronization, abandon the condition, all about perspective. Theoretical justifications: phenomenology, ethnomethodology, social facts (durkheim) How important is the (putative) condition in a sociology of social problems: putative: supposed , example: homelessness, factory faming, child spanking, genocide . Two moves: from putative conditions to condition categories, from claims making to rhetoric. Best: contextual constructionism: strict constructionism, moderate constructionism. Constructing conditions, people and solutions: constructing conditions. Axes of audience identification: socio-personal, political-economic. Framing: studying frames analytically and descriptively, analyzing frames. Logic and emotion: prognostic, constructing people. Formula stories, cultural themes, and moral shock. Social problems ownership: diagnoses, motivations, and solutions, constructing solutions. Over the cost of solutions (time, money, energy) 599 migrants from fujian province and 1 dog.
