A complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem.
With a central focus on the problem of inequality and the manner in which this is manifested in crime, social class and stratification, Social Problems and Inequality explores integrated and root-cause-based explanations of complex social ...
Presents a sense of sociological attitude and appreciation of world problems.
The text is framed around three major themes: intersectionality (the interplay of race, ethnicity, class, and gender), the global scope of many problems, and how researchers take an evidence-based approach to studying problems.
Social Problems
Croall, H. (2007) Social Class, Social Exclusion, Victims and Crime' in Davies et al. (2007). Croall, H. (2012) 'Criminal Justice, Social Inequalities and Social Justice', in Mooney and Scott (2012b). Cromby, J, Harper, D. and Reavey, ...
In Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems (originally published in 1971), Jerome R. Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems.
I also had the chance to point out that there are, in fact, solutions that work. As I tell my students, the question is not really what caused the problem -- we know these are social problems and that means they have social causes.
Letchford, C. W., H. S. Norville, and J. Bilello, 2000. “Damage Survey and Assessment of Fort Worth Tornado, ... Macionis, John J. 2005. Social Problems. 2nd edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. Macionis, John. 2011.
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