Social problems

The research aim is to examine whether organ trafficking is a "social problem" (Blumer, 1971; Spector and Kitsuse, 1977, 2001) in Israel, and if so how it became one. Applying construction of social problems theory including the process of making claims, the study examines the s…

Utilizing a social problems framework, this thesis will explore how media in donor and recipient countries construct meaning and action following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. This research is of empirical interest as the scope of most social problems research has focused on ca…

The purpose of this study was to investigate Iranian students' perceptions of the nature and extent of the social, academic, and personal problems they experienced while studying at Indiana University during the Spring semester of 1980/1981. The study examined problems related t…

In my dissertation, I seek to understand contemporary ‘suicide’ as a scientific and a political object. In this endeavor, I focus on the features of suicide that make it morally and socially problematic, and the way the discourse on and knowledge production about suicide work to…