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Constructing and Deconstructing Teen Pregnancy as a Social Problem

Author: Neiterman, Elena

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine teenage pregnancy as a social problem using social constructionist perspective. Analyzing qualitative interviews with 11 young mothers and relying on the media analysis of popular North American newspapers and magazines, I examine claims-making activity around the denition of teenage pregnancy as a social problem. I start this paper, situating my arguments in the social constructionist literature on social problems. In the second part of this paper I review the literature on teen pregnancy and identify three major themes that dominate academic and public discourse on pregnancy as a social problem. After describing the methodological approach I took to conduct this study, I move on to present my ndings. I demonstrate that in negotiating their mothering skills, young teenage mothers construct their claims about pregnancy, parenthood and their future vis--vis the dominant public discourse on teen pregnancy. They reconstruct their pregnancy and mothering as non-deviant, claim their status as mature and responsible mothers and challenge the importance of biological age as a predictor of successful mothering. I summarize this paper suggesting that these young womens narratives should be considered the claims-making activity of a marginalized population of young mothers who are rarely heard in public, yet they do challenge our assumptions about teen mothering and nd their own way to resist the dominant discourse on teen pregnancy.

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Subject: Pregnancy; Social psychology;

Publication title: Qualitative Sociology Review

Volume: 8

Issue: 3

Pages: n/a

Publication year: 2012

Publication date: Dec 2012

Year: 2012

Publisher: Uniwersytet Lodzki, Wydzial Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny, Instytut Socjol

Place of publication: Lodz

Country of publication: Poland

Publication subject: Sociology

ISSN: 17338077

Source type: Scholarly Journals

Language of publication: English

Document type: Journal Article

ProQuest document ID: 1288233716

Document URL: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1288233716?accountid=458

Copyright: Copyright Uniwersytet Lodzki, Wydzial Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny, Instytut Socjol Dec 2012

Last updated: 2013-03-21

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Neiterman, E. (2012). Constructing and deconstructing teen pregnancy as a social problem. Qualitative Sociology Review, 8(3) Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1288233716?accountid=458

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