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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Debates Within Social Constructionism -- Revising the Constructionist Project -- 1. Reconsidering Social Constructionism -- 2. Vernacular Constituents of Moral Discourse: An Interactionist Proposal for the Study of Social Problems -- 3. The 1960s State as Social Problem: An Analysis of Radical Right and New Left Claims-Making Rhetorics -- Constructionist Responses -- 4. For a Cautious Naturalism -- 5. "Members Only": Reading the Constructionist Text -- 6. Revised Social Constructionism: Traditional Social Science More Than a Postmodernist Analysis -- 7. But Seriously Folks: The Limitations of the Strict Constructionist Interpretation of Social Problems -- Ethnomethodological Concerns -- 8. Social Constructionism and Social Problems Work -- 9. Social Problems and the Organization of Talk and Interaction -- 10. The Reflexivity of Constructionism and the Construction of Reflexivity -- 11. Do We Need a General Theory of Social Problems? -- Conclusion -- 12. Reconstituting the Constructionist Program -- Part II: New Challenges to Social Constructionism -- 13. New Challenges to Social Constructionism: Alternative Perspectives on Social Problems Theory -- Critical Challenges -- 14. The Problem with Social Problems: From Social Constructionism to Critical Theory -- 15. Twenty-Two Theses on Social Constructionism: A Feminist Response to Ibarra and Kitsuse's" Proposal for the Study of Social Problems" -- 16. "Literacy" and Business: "Social Problems" as Social Organization -- Poststructuralist Challenges -- 17. Claims-Making from the Underside: Marginalization and Social Problems Analysis -- 18. (De)Construction, Postmodernism, and Social Problems: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies at the "End of History

By the year 2030 there will be twice as many retirees in the United States as today but only 18 percent more workers. This aging of the population will place considerable financial strain on the United States social security system; relatively few workers will be taxes to pay the benefits of relatively many retirees. Because of this change in demographics, the Social Security Administration will not be able to pay scheduled social security benefits as outlined by current law. Therefore, it is imperative that the government act soon to address the looming fiscal imbalance of the social security program. The Senate Aging Committee and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) both encourage Congress to take a Rawlsian perspective when evaluating social security reform measures that are intended to cope with changing demo- graphics. In their estimation, a desirable reform should not only balance the budget, but it should also protect benefits for the economically vulnerable. In this paper, I examine the relationship between John Rawls theory of social justice and the US social security system. I then provide fifteen possible social security reforms that are consistent with Rawls theory. I conclude with an analysis of the political feasibility of the various reforms considered. As a special example, the mathematical model used to generate the results for three of the reforms is included at the end of the paper.

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Bereitstellung und Nutzung von Daten in der öffentlichen Politik und der Rolle der Sozialwissenschaftler im Rahmen einer verbesserten Datennutzung. Dabei geht es insbesondere um die Frage, wie Fakten zu Daten werden und welche Entscheidungen den kontinuierlichen Datensammlungen von sozialen Fakten in der Gesellschaft zugrunde liegen. Es wird untersucht, welche Rollen Regierungen, Märkte und Sozialwissenschaftler bei dieser Datenproduktion besitzen. Während den Sozialwissenschaftlern spezielle Verantwortung für die Qualität von Daten zur Politikberatung zukommt, scheitern jedoch Forschungsprojekte immer wieder an unklaren wissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen an die Forscher, die Daten sammeln und analysieren. So bleibt eine der wesentlichsten ungelösten Fragen zur Zeit, wie Sozialwissenschaft und Politik besser zugunsten einer verbesserten Auswertung sozialer Daten zusammenarbeiten könnten. (ICH)

Este trabajo rastrea la emergencia, desarrollo y cambios en los conceptos de "cuestión social", "problema social" y "justicia social" en el socialismo, anarquismo, marxismo, liberalismo y catolicismo, como corrientes de pensamiento social en México. Al aplicar el método de la historia conceptual de Reinhart Koselleck, se concluye que las corrientes de pensamiento comparten en su ideología los conceptos adaptados, en diferentes grados y sentidos. Los resultados muestran que el desarrollo de las corrientes fue heterogéneo, como la función de los conceptos en sus ideologías. El aporte es un panorama del pensamiento social mexicano de larga temporalidad que permite observar lógicas del lenguaje social, del modus operandi de las ideologías en México y de las convergencias de la teoría y práctica de la política nacional con el mundo.