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Article: Claimsmakers in the child sexual abuse "wars": who are they and what do they want?
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- Social Work
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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The world of lived reality and situation-specific meanings that constitute the general object of investigation is thought to be constructed by social actors. That is, particular actors, in particular places, at particular times, fashion meaning out of events and phenomena through prolonged, complex processes of social interaction involving history, language, and action.
--(Schwandt, 1994, p. 118)
When I first became involved with child sexual abuse issues as a community organizer and educator in the 1970s, I could not have imagined that newly emerging concerns about the social problem of child sexual abuse would be overshadowed, in less than two decades, ...