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.
Presents a sense of sociological attitude and appreciation of world problems.
Updated with recent issues such as the national debate on health care reform, this Second Edition of How Can We Solve Our Social Problems? gives students a sense of hope by demonstrating specific, realistic steps we can take to solve some ...
The Encyclopedia will offer an interdisciplinary perspective into these and many other social problems that are a continuing concern in our lives, whether we confront them on a personal, local, regional, national, or global level.
Understanding Social Problems
Max Weber (1978), one of the most sophisticated sociologists on the nature of power, expanded the idea of social stratification. First, Weber argued that, despite the significance of economic stratification in determining social order, ...
Mellor , “ Profile of the Working Poor , ” p . 2 . 14. Ibid . 15. Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk , Uneven Tides : Rising Inequality in America ( Russell Sage Foundation , 1993 ) . 16. The racial breakdown of minimum - wage ...
She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
As James Q. Wilson has argued, the largest share of the gun violence problem results from the wrong kinds of people carrying guns at the wrong time and place; the survival motive among the bad guys means exactly that the “wrong kinds of ...
Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this book provides accessible insights into pressing social problems in the United States in the aftermath of the COVID ...