A prologue to constructing the social / Theodore R. Sarbin and John I. Kitsuse -- The social construction of personal histories : gendered lives in popular autobiographies / Mary Gergen -- The social construction of pregnancy and fetal development : notes on a nineteenth-century rhetoric of endangerment / Carol Brooks Gardner -- Correspondents' images of Martin Luther King, Jr. : an interpretive theory of movement leadership / Stephen J. Lilley and Gerald M. Platt -- Practices of truth-finding in a court of law : the case of revised stories / Kim Lane Scheppele -- Gender, science and sexual dysfunction / Mary Boyle -- The many and varied social constructions of intelligence / Milton L. Andersen -- Some constructionist observations on "anxiety" and its history / Richard S. Hallam -- Genius : a social construction, the case of Beethoven's initial recognition / Tia DeNora and Hugh Mehan.

Ageism and the deployments of "age" : a constructionist view / Christopher L. Bodily -- Cocaine careers : historical and individual constructions / Karl E. Scheibe -- A sociocultural construction of "depressions" / Morton Wiener and David Marcus -- Constructing family : descriptive practice and domestic order / James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium.