Contemporary Social Problems And Your World

Author : Elaina K. Behounek
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516588022
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Social Problems and Your World written by Elaina K. Behounek and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Social Problems and Your World: An Anthology provides students with engaging and enlightening readings that help them better understand what sociology is, how social problems emerge in society, the ways inequality impacts people, and the forces that enable social change. The anthology is organized into thematic units that introduce sociological concepts as they relate to social problems. In Unit One, students are introduced to sociological thought and the ways social problems are constructed through social actors. Unit Two focuses on sociological theory and core concepts, helping readers understand how social problems operate. In Unit Three, students examine how aspects of inequality, including homelessness, poverty, gender, and race, affect society. In Unit Four, students are encouraged to explore how social change happens and how we can move to a more equitable future. Designed to help students examine their place in the world through exploring the interrelationships between history, political structures, institutional power, culture, and individual agency, Contemporary Social Problems and Your World is an ideal anthology for introductory courses in sociology.

Author : Ira Silver
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1544398638
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Social Problems written by Ira Silver and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing Social Problems: The Hidden Stories Behind Contemporary Issues shows students how to think about social problems in a new way, by carefully analyzing headline-making issues they are already familiar with and illustrating the connection between individual problems and larger social forces. Each chapter engages students in thinking about the world sociologically by focusing on a specific case study that represents a more general social problem. The chapters always start with the knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and personal experiences that students bring to the case—what author Ira Silver refers to as the conventional wisdom—and effectively demonstrate to them the "first wisdom" of sociology: "things are not what they seem." In each instance, Silver shows how sociologists ask questions, gather empirical data, use multiple perspectives, and consider larger social forces to discover the "hidden stories" behind individual behavior. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.

Author : Anna Leon-Guerrero
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 1412965306
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Readings in Social Problems written by Anna Leon-Guerrero and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2008-11-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion reader to Anna Leon-Guerrero's Social Problems - 2nd Edition.

Author : Harold A. Phelps
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376974980
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Social Problems written by Harold A. Phelps and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Adam Jamrozik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599320
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Social Problems written by Adam Jamrozik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social problems such as unemployment, poverty and drug addiction are a fact of life in industrialised societies. This book examines the sociology of social problems from interesting and challenging perspectives. It analyses how social problems emerge and are defined as such, who takes responsibility for them, who is threatened by them and how they are managed, solved or ignored. The authors examine and critique existing theories of social problems before developing their own theoretical framework. Their 'theory of residualist conversion of social problems' explains how certain social problems threaten legitimate power structures, so that problems of a social or political nature are transformed into personal problems, and the 'helping professions' are left to intervene. This book will become a key reference on class, inequality and social intervention and an important text for students in sociology and social work courses.

Author : Robert King Merton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Social Problems written by Robert King Merton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1971 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vincent N. Parrillo
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780023917318
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Social Problems written by Vincent N. Parrillo and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roberta Goldberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317249933
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Contemporary Social Problems Through Media written by Roberta Goldberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldberg uses a multi-media approach to critically examine the most significant and volatile issues of our times: the environmental crisis, upheavals in the developing world, health, terrorism, and technology. The book is unique in its in-depth coverage of these pressing social concerns and its use of extensive media resources through a companion website. An introductory section reviews basic sociological concepts and theories, including the sociological imagination and class, gender, and race stratification all of which are revisited in each chapter. The book helps students appreciate the magnitude of the problems of the twenty-first century as they develop the intellectual tools to understand them sociologically and personally.Features of the text: "

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761926108
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Social Problems written by George Ritzer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comparative perspective on the state of social problems and deviance in a variety of societies around the world. This book explores the theory of the weakness of the strong, in other words, strong or wealthy nations may have greater vulnerability to some social problems than less developed or affluent societies.

Author : Brandon Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781793507143
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Social Problems written by Brandon Lang and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.