Under Soc Pblms W/CD Info 5e - Softcover

KNOX; SCHACHT; MOONEY

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495091588 ISBN 13: 9780495091585

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

Designed to be relevant to both majors and non-majors, this textbook introduces undergraduates to sociology as a means for understanding social problems affecting people around the world. Topics include (for example) the health care crisis, economic inequality, sexual orientation issues, population growth, and armed conflict. The fifth edition feat

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0495091588
• ISBN 13: 9780495091585
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 579