Constructing the Social

Prologue/PART ONE: PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AS SOURCES OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS/The Social Construction of Personal Histories/Gendered Lives in Popular Autobiographies/The Social Construction of Pregnancy and Fetal Development/Notes on a Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Endangerment/Correspondents' Images of Martin Luther King Jr/An Interpretive Theory of Movement Leadership/PART TWO: SOCIOPOLITICAL FACTORS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL CATEGORIES/Practices of Truth-Finding in a Court of Law/The Case of Revised Stories/Gender Science and Sexual Dysfunction/The Many and Varied Social Constructions of Intelligence/Some Constructionist Observations on `Anxiety' and its History/PART THREE: THE DECONSTRUCTION OF POPULAR CONCEPTIONS/Genius/A Social Construction the Case of Beethoven's Initial Recognition/Ageism and the Deployments of `Age'/A Constructionist View/Cocaine Careers/Historical and Individual Constructions/A Sociocultural Construction of `Depressions'/Constructing Family/Descriptive Practice and Domestic Order