ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Peter Ibarra and John Kitsuse's vision about the future of constructionism. It suggests that their proposed agenda could be profitably extended in two interrelated ways. First, although constructionism has tended to focus on claims-making surrounding putative conditions or condition-categories claims constructing such categories often simultaneously construct the types of people who inhabit those categories. Second, Ibarra and Kitsuse emphasize how social problem claims can be organized around moral themes; the chapter suggests that discursive productions of people-types simultaneously construct preferred emotional orientations and responses toward the constructed categories. It argues that constructionists could maintain a radical focus on members' constitutive practices yet expand interest into the construction of people categories. The chapter claims that rather than a social problems discourse, there are interconnected discourses that rhetorically constitute categories as residing within folk universes of morality and emotion.
