Constructing a Social Problem: The Press and the Environment
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 27 (1), 38-61
- https://doi.org/10.2307/800015
Abstract
The U.S. daily press might seem to be in a strategic position to function as a claims-maker in the early construction of a social problem. But in theKeywords
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