Global Problems: The Search for Equity, Peacend Sustainability + Mysearchlab - Softcover

Sernau, Scott R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205701914 ISBN 13: 9780205701919

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2009

Synopsis

MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself—including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography.

This text uses sociological perspectives to examine the various dimensions of globalization, and the social problems of inequality, war and violence, and environmental sustainability that are occurring on a global scale. Clear writing and vivid examples help students to better understand their role as global citizens.

The book is divided into three parts:

Part I focuses on the challenges of global inequalities: in life chances, wages and work, gender and education.

Part II focuses on conflict and violence at all levels: from crime to politics, terrorism to war.

Part III focuses on the issue of sustainability and the problems of urbanization, crowding and environmental destruction.

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Review

Thank you to the following reviewers:

 

Christopher Whitsel North Dakota State University Gerald Titchener Des Moines Area Community College Stephen Sills University of North Carolina Greensboro

About the Author

Scott Sernau (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Professor of Sociology and Director of International Programs at Indiana University South Bend where he regularly teaches courses on social inequality, urban society, sustainability and global issues.  He has taught in Mexico, in France and aboard ship on global voyages with the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea program.   He is the author of Economies of Exclusion: Underclass Poverty and Labor Market Change in Mexico; Critical Choices: Applying Sociological Insight in Your Life, Family, and Community; Bound: Living in the Globalized World, and Social Inequalities in a Global Age as well as editor of  Contemporary Readings in Globalization.  He has won six trustee’s teaching awards, as well as the Sylvia Bowman Award for Distinguished Teaching and the PA Mack Award for Distinguished Service to Teaching.  He serves on the steering committee of the  IU Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching, the board of the IUSB Center for a Sustainable Future, and the board of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205701914
• ISBN 13: 9780205701919
• Binding: Paperback