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Agenda for Social Justice 3

  • Seventeen - Social problems in the age of culture wars

  • Edited by Kristen M. Budd, Heather Dillaway, Wayne State University, Detroit, David C. Lane, Illinois State University, Glenn M. Muschert, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, Manjusha Nair, George Mason University, Virginia, Jason A. Smith, George Mason University, Virginia
  • Book:
    Agenda for Social Justice 3
    Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    28 December 2024
    Print publication:
    07 August 2024, pp 153-163

  • Summary

    This volume is intentionally published to coincide with the 2024 presidential election. For past and current members of the Justice 21 Committee, the vision was to provide policy makers and the public with evidence- based solutions to contemporary problems. It is an effort to engage in public sociology that departs from the discipline's traditional structure of creating and diffusing information.

    At the same time, while each chapter in the volume addresses a range of issues using scientific knowledge and tools, they are all cultural products. They are the outcome of not just human effort but a multitude of people collectively engaged in the activity of explaining troubling conditions with scientific evidence. These chapters aim to persuade audiences that social scientific solutions can effectively mitigate or manage these problematic conditions. They slightly differ from how social scientists traditionally attempt to distribute their ideas to audiences.

    The volume resides among the thousands of other efforts to persuade people that they ought to engage in action to do something about a troubling condition. While the contributors are primarily social scientists and activists, their explanations of troubling conditions must resonate with audiences. Not all audiences will likely be receptive to the definitions, research evidence, and solutions presented to these problems. They may prefer others who use different forms of persuasion and systems of distribution. The production, distribution, consumption, discussion, memory, and preservation of claims are affected by various institutions and organizations that constrain and facilitate this general process. The construction of social problems involves social processes where human actors assign meaning to troubling conditions, what many have called the social constructionist stance toward social issues. It emphasizes the creation and distribution of meanings that assign trouble to conditions.

    Understanding social problems during the culture wars involves accounting for the multitude of ways that people produce, distribute, and consume claims. Producers cannot just create any claim. Audiences need to legitimate those claims. These audiences include people who occupy positions in organizations or institutions that either diffuse those claims or respond to troubling conditions. There are usually many others who labor behind the scenes (writers, editors, bosses, underwriters, and so on) who make consequential decisions that affect the social construction of culture war issues. Audiences receive carefully curated messages about the most pressing problems in the United States.

Social Problems in the Age of COVID-19 Vol 1
  • Volume 1: US Perspectives
  • Edited by Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, Michelle Christian, David C. Lane, Jason A. Smith
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    23 March 2021
    Print publication:
    24 August 2020
  • Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this book provides accessible insights into pressing social problems in the United States in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and proposes public policy responses for victims and justice, precarious populations, employment dilemmas and health and well-being.

Social Problems in the Age of COVID-19 Vol 2
  • Volume 2: Global Perspectives
  • Volume 2
  • Edited by Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, David C. Lane, Jason A. Smith
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    23 March 2021
    Print publication:
    21 October 2020
  • The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching political and social consequences across the globe. Published in collaboration with the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this book addresses the greatest social challenges facing the world as a result of the pandemic. The authors propose public policy solutions to help refugees, migrant workers, victims of human trafficking, indigenous populations and the invisible poor of the Global South.

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