Budding with new insight, this top-selling, proactive book probes the nature and causes of each major social problem confronting citizens today, and, with historical and multicultural sensitivity, delves into the...
Social Problems: Private Troubles and Public Issues
Social Problems
With an engaging writing style that has made it a popular choice at both 2- and 4-year schools, the Third Edition of Anna Leon-Guerrero’s Social Problems textbook clearly presents contemporary social problems and addresses their ...
CONFRONTING SOCIAL PROBLEMS 9.4 Applying Criminological Theories to Reduce Crime argue that different social problems ... theories discussed here reveal that crime can be addressed through finding solutions to different social problems.
This book's logical organization—essential concepts, troubled institutions, inequality, deviance, and global problems—in a concise, paperback format, helps readers gain a coherent understanding of social problems. ...
This edition includes several new chapters on topics of major interest to students, including: the human right to health climate change and human rights immigration and human rights violations in U.S. society a new discussion of the ...
This theoretically balanced book provides a thorough understanding of major social problems facing the United States—their causes, consequences, likely future course, and what can be done about them.
The thirteenth edition focuses more deliberately on five major themes: the structural sources of social problems; the role of the United States in global social problems; the centrality of class, race, gender, sexuality, and disability as ...
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New to This Edition Many of the social policy discussions (including immigration, LGBTQ rights, the Affordable Care Act, and Internet neutrality) have been updated to reflect the most recent government actions and debates.
A A Closer Look Scapegoating America's Teenagers : Myths and Realities Age discrimination is not always aimed at the elderly . In The Scapegoat Generation : America's War on Adolescents , Mike Males shows that from 1970 to the mid1990s ...
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The 13th Edition offers thoroughly updated data as well as examples of contemporary social problems drawn from recent headlines in order to emphasize the relevance of the course to students' daily lives.
After years of diplomatic isolation Syria is emerging from the cold. Its government is a key Middle Eastern player, and will be a major element of any possible comprehensive Middle...
... identity, age, mental health, and work. She teaches courses in most of these topic areas, along with introductory sociology, statistics, and classical theory. Her recent book, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health (Rutgers University ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
The Second Edition of Sociology in Action: Social Problems is ideal for teachers who want to provide students with an active learning experience that relies less on lecturing and more on discussion, collaboration, self-directed ...
"Providing students with a solid theoretical background, this book is designed primarily for social problems courses.
This edition has been updated to include two new features: "Signs of Hope" boxes, which help promote a positive outlook on today's social problems, and "Personal Perspectives" boxes, which present personal accounts of individuals' own ...