構築主義社会問題研究と犯罪社会学(解釈学的社会学理論の犯罪社会学への応用)
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Social constructionism, which has become influential in the sociology of social problems, has recently also become popular in criminology in the United States. Social constructionism subscribes to the view of social problems as a claims-making activity with respect to some putative conditions. It doesn't view social problems as being taken for granted but as being constructed through the interactions among society's members. It focuses on the processes in which some phenomena become defined and constructed as a social problem by society's citizens, groups, organizations and institutions. Social constructionism is similar with the labeling perspective, which proposes that what is deviant depends upon the people's definition of a particular activity and the social reaction to it. This paper considers the differences in the development of social constructionism and the labeling perspective in Japan and the United States and points out the commonality between these two ideas especially in Japan. Social constructionism was criticized as gerrymandering" by Woolgar and Pawluch. They pointed out that social constructionist used objective standards to identify social problems in spite of their proposal of the adoption of the people's definition. In responding to this criticism, social constructionism was divided into three streams-strict constructionism, contextual constructionism, and post modernism. In addition, a few revised versions-social problems work, debunking" and so on-were also proposed. Strict constructionism demands that the researcher refrain from gerrymandering, though contextual constructionism says that it is unavoidable. This paper reviews several works and topics of each social constructionist stream and version and shows their relevance on criminology. Social constructionism is able to innovate sociological criminology where a positivistic way of thinking is influential, as there are diversity and fertility among social constructionism.
- 日本犯罪社会学会の論文
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