Understanding Social Problems - Softcover

Mooney, Linda A.; Knox, David; Schacht, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495091588 ISBN 13: 9780495091585

Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

This is a comprehensive mid-level paperback text that takes a theoretically balanced, student-centered approach to social problems. The text progresses from a micro- to macro-level of analysis, focusing first on such problems as illness and health care, drugs and alcohol, and family problems and then broadening to the larger issues of poverty and inequality, population growth, environmental problems, and conflict around the world. The social problem in each chapter is framed in a global as well as U.S. context. In every chapter, the three major theoretical perspectives are applied to the social problem under discussion, and the consequences of the problem, as well as alternative solutions, are explored. Pedagogical features such as The Human Side and Self and Society enable students to grasp how social problems affect the lives of individuals and apply their understanding of social problems to their own lives.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0495091588
• ISBN 13: 9780495091585
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 579
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar