Social constructionism in housing research
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Social constructionism in housing research
Ashgate, c2004
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
By stressing the importance of subjectivity and interpretation, social constructionism offers a different conception of reality from the traditional approach to housing policy analysis. This book provides an up-to-date review of the social constructionist perspective and considers its philosophical basis. It discusses how social problems are constructed and, in turn, how this informs policy-making. It is divided into two parts. The first section is theoretical and discusses the variety of conceptual approaches utilised within the constructionist paradigm. The second part provides a number of empirically based case studies from the UK and Australia to illustrate the different methodologies that form the social constructionist corpus. The book also evaluates both the criticisms that have been made against the social constructionist perspective and the strengths and weaknesses of constructionist methods. It therefore contributes to the development of a future research agenda for social constructionist research in housing and urban policy.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction, Keith Jacobs, Jim Kemeny and Tony Manzi
- The philosophical assumptions of constructionism, Max Travers
- Relativism, subjectivity and the self: a critique of social constructionism, Peter King
- Extending constructionist social problems to the study of housing problems, Jim Kemeny
- Constructing the meaning of social exclusion as a policy metaphor, Greg Marston
- Housing pathways - a social constructionist research framework, David Clapham
- Necessary welfare measure or policy failure: media reports of public housing in Sydney in the 1990s, Kathleen J. Mee
- Organizational research: conflict and power within UK and Australian social housing organizations, Michael Darcy and Tony Manzi
- Social constructionism and international comparative housing research, Anna Haworth, Tony Manzi and Jim Kemeny
- Index.
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