Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Social Issues, Expanded

Finsterbusch, Kurt

ISBN 10: 0078127505 / ISBN 13: 9780078127502

Verlag: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2009

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• Titel: Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Social Issues, Expanded
• Verlag: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0078127505
• ISBN-13: 9780078127502
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Good

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TAKING SIDES: SOCIAL ISSUES, 15/e EXPANDED presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructor’s manual with testing material is available for each volume. USING TAKING SIDES IN THE CLASSROOM is also an excellent instructor resource with practical suggestions on incorporating this effective approach in the classroom. Each TAKING SIDES reader features an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites and is supported by a book website. Visit www.mhcls.com.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kurt Finsterbusch is a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland at College Park. He received a BA in history from Princeton University in 1957, a BD from Grace Theological Seminary in 1960, and a PhD in sociology from Columbia University in 1969. He is the author of Understanding Social Impacts (Sage Publications, 1980), and he is the coauthor, with Annabelle Bender Motz, of Social Research for Policy Decisions (Wadsworth, 1980) and, with Jerald Hage, of Organizational Change as a Development Strategy (Lynne Rienner, 1987). He is the editor of Annual Editions: Sociology (McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Learning Series); Annual Editions: Social Problems (McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Learning Series); and Sources: Notable Selections in Sociology, 3rd ed. (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 1999).