Social Problems: A Critical Thinking Approach
- ISBN-10
- 0534190146
- ISBN-13
- 9780534190149
- Series
- Social Problems
- Category
- Criticism (Philosophy).
- Pages
- 530
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Authors
- Paul J. Baker, Louis E. Anderson, Dean S. Dorn
Description
Instead of just describing social problems, this book helps students develop active critical thinking skills through evaluating and analyzing readings from social scientists and journalists on major social problems. The authors goal is to teach students to be lifelong critical consumers of journalistic and social scientific accounts of all kinds of social problems.
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