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The trouble with the ways morality is used and how they impede social equality and social justice / Elliot Turiel -- The moral judgment of the child reevaluated : heteronomy, early morality, and reasoning about social justice and inequalities / Charles C. Helwig -- America's Head Start program : an effort for social justice / Edward Zigler and Sally J. Styfco -- Affirmative action and ethnic minority university students : enlarging pipelines to support success / Joel Gills, Kristina Schmukler, Margarita Azmitia, and Faye Crosby -- The biology of social justice : linking social inequalities and health in adolescence / Elizabeth Goodman and Nancy E. Adler -- Leaving LGBT students behind : schools, sexuality, and rights / Stacey Horn -- The development of stereotype threat : consequences for educational and social equality / Catherine Good and Joshua Aronson -- Honour, truth, and justice / by Unni Wikan -- In defense of universal values / Martha Nussbaum

Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work has two inter-related themes. First to account for and analyse current changes in social work and secondly, to assess how far recent developments in social theory can contribute to their interpretation. Representing the work of a range of academics all involved in research and teaching in relation to social work, it considers issues of central significance to everyone interested in the theory, policy, and practice of social work

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