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This article examines social problems in Chinese rural society as it undergoes economic reform and social transformations on an unprecedented scale. First is a historical review of social change in rural China under communist rule. Second is a systematic categorisation and description of social problems and their essential characteristics in rural regions. Third is an analytic explanation of rural social problems in relation to larger social structures and processes. The last part explores strategies and tactics that can be taken to deal with social problems in rural society. To preserve rural China as a peaceful living environment for the majority of the Chinese population, this article suggests that education be improved, business opportunities be created, the outflow of surplus labour be curbed, law enforcement be strengthened, governmental behaviour be regulated, grass-roots organisations be maintained, conflict resolution be promoted and self-defence be guided, across rural communities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Zooming In (and Out) on Social Problems -- 2 The Landscape of Domestic Violence and the Public's Narrow Picture -- 3 "I Get My Experience from the Media": Using Mediato Understand Social Problems -- 4 Women's Magazines: The Victim Empowerment Frame -- 5 Social Problems as Inspiration, Entertainment, and Emotion: Women's Magazines and Other Entertainment Media -- 6 Men's and Conservative Political Magazines: The Antifeminist Frame -- 7 Liberal Political Magazines: The Social Justice Frame -- 8 Framing the Victim -- 9 In Search of a New Social Problem about Violence -- References -- Index

AbstractThis chapter explores the sociopolitical nature of language in evaluation and illustrates the role evaluators can play as the translator and interpreter in assessing the outcomes of social programs.

Defining and Redefining Social Problems – theory and concepts -- Globalization and Social Problems -- The state, Policy, Society and Social Problems -- Child Right and Child Protection -- Family, Child and Youth Welfare -- Ageing, Elderly and Social Problems -- Health and Mental Health Problems -- Loneliness, Loss and Suicide -- Gender and sexuality in Changing Society -- Disability and Social Exclusion in diverse contexts -- Poverty, inequality and social injustice -- Addiction -a growing Social Problem -- Environment, Ecology, Climate Change and Natural disaster -- Globalization, Migration and Labor -- Culture, Identity and International conflict -- Neoliberalism and Changing Education -- Family -- Unemployment as a global social problem -- Criminality, Corruption and Violence -- Changing Social Order and Social Problems -- Radicalization, Terrorism and Racism -- Religion and Faith in Contemporary Society -- Social Problems in the Age of COVID: Global and localized perspectives .

Building on the work of Dorothy Smith and Bruno Latour, this article examines the textual mediation of social problems activities. Because of their materiality and/or digitality, texts preserve constructions of reality, rendering those constructions durable and mobile. This, in turn, allows claims-makers distant in time or space to access those constructions as interpretive resources for claims-making. Texts, then, help us account for how social problems spread and endure. We show how texts mediate claims-makers access to two resources for claims-making: the "reality" of problematic conditions and definitions of problems. We also consider how texts structure social problems work. We conclude by briefly considering how the contemporary technological environment may be altering the textual mediation of claims-making.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Part I. Introduction -- 1 Troubling Children: Children and Social Problems -- Part II. Children in Societal Crises -- 2 A Threatened Generation: Impediments to Children's Quality of Life in Kenya -- 3 When Parents Discuss the Price of Bread: Albanian Children and the Economic Crisis -- Part III. Pregnancy and Infancy -- 4 Little Strangers: Pregnancy Conduct and the Twentieth-Century Rhetoric of Endangerment -- 5 "Crack Babies" and the Politics of Reproduction and Nurturance -- Part IV. Families and Children -- 6 Ritual, Magic, and Educational Toys: Symbolic Aspects of Toy Selection -- 7 The Changing Meanings of Spanking -- 8 The Positive Functions of Rock and Roll Music for Children and Their Parents -- Part V. Schools and Children -- 9 Normalizing Daycare-Normalizing the Child: Daycare Discourse in Popular Magazines, 1900-1990 -- 10 The Medicalization and Demedicalization of School Refusal: Constructing an EducationalProblem in Japan -- Part VI. Children's Perspectives on Social Problems -- 11 If We Don't Do Anything Now, There Won't Be Anything Left: Categories of Concern in Children's Drawings of Environmental Crisis -- Biographical Sketches of the Contributors -- Index