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Social Constructionism and Social Inequality

An Introduction to a Special Issue of JCE

Saint Louis University, harriss3{at}slu.edu

This article highlights two major trends in the social sciences: an increasing concern with inequality and a growing interest in interpretive variability and the creation of meaning. Despite these trends, not enough research treats inequality itself as a meaning that is socially constructed. The article proposes a list of ten ideas useful for guiding research on inequality in a more consistently constructionist direction. Then it introduces the five articles that compose this special issue on social constructionism and social inequality, articles that contribute to the constructionist agenda in varied ways.

Key Words: constructionism • inequality • meaning • qualitative methods

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