This text focuses on the significance of race, class, and gender; uses personal narratives to convey how problems are experienced by individuals and groups; and applies sociological perspectives throughout to examine social issues.
Other features of the book remain the same, such as the balanced, positive approach that is inclusive of the issues of race, class, and gender and an emphasis on technology and the media.
Practice Tests for Kendall, "Social Problems in a Diverse Society", Second Edition
Social Problems in a Diverse Society (with Study Guide)
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Janet Fanslow and Elizabeth Robinson (2010)4 studied help-seeking behavior and motivation among women victims of intimate partner violence in New Zealand. The researchers argue that historically, responses to victims have been developed ...
"This text focuses on the significance of race, class, and gender; uses personal narratives to convey how problems are experienced by individuals and groups; and applies sociological perspectives throughout to examine social issues.
Students will find this text an interesting and informative introduction to a mind-opening field of study.
Throughout the text, people - especially those from marginalized groups--are shown not merely as "victims" of social problems, but also as individual actors with agency who resist discrimination and inequality and seek to bring about change ...
This is intended to be an accessible, issues-oriented book that is more intuitive, as opposed to rigorously mathematical, than most books.