摘要:This article builds on recent sociological debates about the explanatory importance of claims-makingcontexts and the continuing challenges associated with subjectivism and objectivism in social problemsresearch. The sociology of knowledge is used to illustrate how the contextual compromise thathas sustained social problems theory and method for at least two decades is based on a number oferroneous assumptions about subjectivity and objectivity in the tradition of phenomenological analysis.To strengthen recent discussions about the contextual dimensions of claims-making activitiesand framing techniques, the article critically assesses the curious neglect and continuing misrepresentationof the sociology of knowledge in constructionist analyses of social problems.
关键词:Claims;Making; Social Problems; Contextual Constructionism; Phenomenology; Sociology of;Knowledge