Author : Anna Leon-Guerrero
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412965306
Companion reader to Anna Leon-Guerrero's Social Problems - 2nd Edition.
Author : Yawo Bessa
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2021-07-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781793562609
Essential Readings in Social Problems provides students with a collection of engaging and thought-provoking articles that deepen their understanding of the topics and themes discussed within courses that address social issues. The anthology is organized into six distinct units. The opening unit introduces readers to the concept of the sociological imagination, which allows individuals to make connections between social structures and individual conditions to formulate social theories. In Unit 2, the readings examine the destructive nature of inequality, causes of poverty, issues related to gender inequality, and more. Unit 3 focuses on the concept of deviance and how it applies to sexuality and crime. Units 4 and 5 explore the relationship between race, ethnicity, white privilege, and social problems, and the intersection of human health and environmental problems. Dedicated readings address the social construction of race, biodiversity, and more. Unit 6, the final unit, offers readers a variety of proposed solutions for social problems with emphasis on social movements to combat economic inequality, increasing authoritarianism, and ecological crises. Designed to stimulate critical thought, Essential Readings in Social Problems is an ideal supplementary text for courses in sociology and any other course that explores social challenges.
Author : Joel M. Charon
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2005-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780495004608
A unique and groundbreaking collection of 54 articles organized in 11 thematic sections, SOCIAL PROBLEMS: READINGS WITH FOUR QUESTIONS 2e takes a structural/conflict approach yet lets the voices of those impacted by social problems be heard. The articles are a mix of classic and contemporary readings, covering a wide range of issues in the United States and the world. The introductory article, written by Joel Charon, focuses on four questions that students are urged to apply throughout the reader: What is the problem? What makes the problem a "social problem"? What causes the problem? What can be done? This four questions approach gives students a consistent sociological framework within which to analyze social problems. The articles have been painstakingly selected to hold student interest, highlight contemporary social problems, and help professors show students how to think sociologically about the social problems around us.
Author : Brandon Lang
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2019-12-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781793507129
Seeing Social Problems: Readings on Contemporary Issues in the United States provides students with engaging, thought-provoking articles that examine a wide array of current social issues, the types of behaviors that perpetuate such problems, and how these issues affect the daily lives of Americans. Students are invited to critically consider how key issues have evolved and changed over time and to devise new ways for society to improve, both as people and as a nation. The reader is divided into eight sections. Opening sections address socioeconomic inequality and poverty; racial and ethnic inequality; gender inequality and homophobia; and crime. Later sections explore social problems related to medicine and health, families, education, and the environment. The revised first edition features up-to-date information on several important issues, including race, gender, crime, health care, drug abuse, and pollution. Recent developments related to the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, Obamacare, and environmental justice are addressed. A new reading concerning the American opioid crisis has also been added. Developed to inspire critical thought and a greater understanding of contemporary issues, Seeing Social Problems is an ideal resource for courses in sociology.
Author : Joel Best
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Social perception
ISBN : 9780393283419
A complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem.
Author : Roger G. Dunham
Publisher :
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780881337297
A reader to accompany the textbook Policing Urban America, the pair emphasizing the importance of involving community members in decisions concerning law enforcement, including tasks, objectives, and goals. Some articles have been updated from the 1997 third edition (first in 1989) and some new ones have been added. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Sally Anne Haslanger
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Influential accounts of persistence--how ordinary objects persist through time--examine the perdurantist, exdurantist, and endurantist approaches and provide an overview of the topic.
Author : Anna Leon-Guerrero
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1506362710
Empower your students to become part of the solution. The new Sixth Edition of Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action goes beyond the typical presentation of contemporary social problems and their consequences by emphasizing the importance and effectiveness of community involvement to achieve real solutions. With a clear and upbeat tone, this thought-provoking text challenges readers to see the social and structural forces that determine our social problems; to consider various policies and programs that attempt to address these problems; and to recognize and learn how they can be part of the solution to social problems in their own community. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package SAGE Premium Video Included in the interactive eBook! SAGE Premium Video tools and resources boost comprehension and bolster analysis. Learn more. SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Learn more. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier. See how your students benefit.
Author : S. N. Eisenstadt
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483137864
Readings in Social Evolution and Development presents a collection of articles on a specialized aspect of sociology, or social psychology. The book starts by describing social change and development and the role of institutionalization, individual behavior, and role performance on such change and development. The text also discusses the basic problems of evolutionary perspective in sociology and studies of development and modernization. The theories of social change, the problem of evolution, and the major trends of change in the contemporary setting, such as changes in the industrial societies and alternative courses of political development in the new states are also encompassed. Sociologists and social psychologists and students taking sociology courses will find the book useful.
Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816631278
It is argued that the conception of social science emerging today is one that involves a synthesis of radical constructivism and critical realism. The crucial challenge facing social science is a question of its public role: growing reflexivity in society has implications for the social production of knowledge and is bringing into question the separation of expert systems from other forms of knowledge.
