Constructing the Social

Prologue - Theodore R Sarbin and John I Kitsuse PART ONE: PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AS SOURCES OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS The Social Construction of Personal Histories - Mary Gergen Gendered Lives in Popular Autobiographies The Social Construction of Pregnancy and Fetal Development - Carol Brooks Gardner Notes on a Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Endangerment Correspondents' Images of Martin Luther King Jr - Stephen J Lilley and Gerald M Platt An Interpretive Theory of Movement Leadership PART TWO: SOCIOPOLITICAL FACTORS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL CATEGORIES Practices of Truth-Finding in a Court of Law - Kim Lane Scheppele The Case of Revised Stories Gender, Science and Sexual Dysfunction - Mary Boyle The Many and Varied Social Constructions of Intelligence - Milton L Andersen Some Constructionist Observations on `Anxiety' and its History - Richard S Hallam PART THREE: THE DECONSTRUCTION OF POPULAR CONCEPTIONS Genius - Tia DeNora and Hugh Mehan A Social Construction, the Case of Beethoven's Initial Recognition Ageism and the Deployments of `Age' - Christopher L Bodily A Constructionist View Cocaine Careers - Karl E Scheibe Historical and Individual Constructions A Sociocultural Construction of `Depressions' - Morton Wiener and David Marcus Constructing Family - James A Holstein and Jaber F Gubrium Descriptive Practice and Domestic Order

`Provides diverse examples of constructionist analysis in practice, thereby illuminating both its virtues and its vices' - Reviewing Sociology