Learn to think through today's complex social issues from a variety of perspectives with UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMS, 11E by award-winning authors Mooney, Van Willigen and Clever. This reader-friendly approach highlights the latest data, policies, theories and relevant examples as you examine the most important social issues facing the world in 2021. You review the long-term impacts of COVID-19, repercussions of the 2020 election and emerging social movements. Quotes from prominent celebrities and captivating features emphasize how today's social problems affect your own life as well as those around you. This edition progresses from studying micro problems related to health care, drugs and alcohol, families and crime to examining larger issues of poverty and inequality, population growth, aging, environmental problems, science and technology and world conflict. MindTap digital resources help you further develop the tools to understand institutional change and become socially engaged.
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Linda A. Mooney, Ph.D., is an emeritus faculty member at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. In addition to social problems, her specialties include sociology of law, criminology and juvenile delinquency. Dr. Mooney has served as senior author for 12 editions of this prominent text. She has also published in national as well as international journals, including Social Forces, Sociological Inquiry, Sex Roles, Sociological Quarterly, Sociology and Social Research and Teaching Sociology. Dr. Mooney has won numerous teaching awards, including the University of North Carolina, Board of Governor's Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award.
Molly Clever, Ph.D., is an associate professor of sociology and public service at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, WV. Her teaching interests include social conflict, war, social movements, community engagement and issues related to political and economic inequality. Dr. Clever has been published in Teaching Sociology and has authored numerous articles and book chapters focused on community engagement, teaching and learning practices as well as the changing nature of war and military organizations.
Marieke Van Willigen, Ph.D., is professor of sociology at Georgia Southern University, where she teaches global sociology, family, social statistics, medical sociology and sociology of mental health. She recently concluded eleven years of serving as university administrator at two different universities. She is the author or co-author of numerous articles published in such journals as the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Gerontology, Journal of Marriage and Family and the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. More than 20 of Dr. Willigen's students have earned doctoral degrees and now serve in faculty positions across the country.
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