Description

• Title:
  Social Problems and the Contextual Compromise: Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Knowledge in Everyday Life
• Creator:
  Hier, Sean P.
• Contributor:
  University of Victoria, Canada;
  Sean P. Hier is a Professor of Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada. He regularly participates in debates about moral panics and social problems. His current research focuses on the history of social theorizing.;
  shier@uvic.ca
• Description:
  This article builds on recent sociological debates about the explanatory importance of claims-making contexts and the continuing challenges associated with subjectivism and objectivism in social problems research. The sociology of knowledge is used to illustrate how the contextual compromise that has sustained social problems theory and method for at least two decades is based on a number of erroneous assumptions about subjectivity and objectivity in the tradition of phenomenological analysis. To strengthen recent discussions about the contextual dimensions of claims-making activities and framing techniques, the article critically assesses the curious neglect and continuing misrepresentation of the sociology of knowledge in constructionist analyses of social problems.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.08.19;
  2019
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Qualitative Sociology Review; 3;
  15
• Subject:
  Claims-Making;
  Social Problems;
  Contextual Constructionism;
  Phenomenology;
  Sociology of Knowledge
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/29950 ;
  1733-8077;
  10.18778/1733-8077.15.3.02
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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