Constructing the Social

• Prologue - Theodore R Sarbin and John I KitsusePART ONE: PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AS SOURCES OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONSThe Social Construction of Personal Histories - Mary GergenGendered Lives in Popular AutobiographiesThe Social Construction of Pregnancy and Fetal Development - Carol Brooks GardnerNotes on a Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of EndangermentCorrespondents′ Images of Martin Luther King Jr - Stephen J Lilley and Gerald M PlattAn Interpretive Theory of Movement LeadershipPART TWO: SOCIOPOLITICAL FACTORS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL CATEGORIESPractices of Truth-Finding in a Court of Law - Kim Lane ScheppeleThe Case of Revised StoriesGender, Science and Sexual Dysfunction - Mary BoyleThe Many and Varied Social Constructions of Intelligence - Milton L AndersenSome Constructionist Observations on `Anxiety′ and its History - Richard S HallamPART THREE: THE DECONSTRUCTION OF POPULAR CONCEPTIONSGenius - Tia DeNora and Hugh MehanA Social Construction, the Case of Beethoven′s Initial RecognitionAgeism and the Deployments of `Age′ - Christopher L BodilyA Constructionist ViewCocaine Careers - Karl E ScheibeHistorical and Individual ConstructionsA Sociocultural Construction of `Depressions′ - Morton Wiener and David MarcusConstructing Family - James A Holstein and Jaber F GubriumDescriptive Practice and Domestic Order

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