[PDF] Outline Of Social Problems eBook

Author : James A. Crone
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 141299358X

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Updated with recent issues such as the national debate on health care reform, this Second Edition of How Can We Solve Our Social Problems? gives students a sense of hope by demonstrating specific, realistic steps we can take to solve some of the most pervasive social problems in America today. Author James Crone maintains a sense of sociological objectivity throughout and helps students realize that we can take steps to solve such key social problems as poverty, racial and ethnic inequality, unequal education, and environmental issues. The book's first two chapters define "social problem,," provide a theoretical background, discuss the daunting barriers we face in attempting to solve social problems, and demonstrate how sociology can help.

Author : Linda A. Mooney
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780176502775

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Written from a distinctly Canadian point of view, Understanding Social Problems, Fourth Canadian Edition, examines how the structure and culture of societies contribute to social problems and their consequences. This text has strong pedagogical features and is comprehensive in its coverage, progressing from micro to macro levels of analysis. It focuses first on problems of health care, drug use, and crime, and then broadens to the widening concerns of population, health and welfare, science and technology, large-scale inequality and environmental problems. Known for its inclusive approach, Understanding Social Problems, Fourth Canadian Edition, explores powerful stories of real life people struggling with the challenges society and its problems have thrust upon them.

Author : James Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351489755

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Sociology has tackled some of the most formidable problems that confront contemporary society: inequality, homelessness, violence, gender, and many more. Sociologists assert that hypotheses can be formulated and tested against empirical evidence, that faulty viewpoints can be uncovered and discarded, and that plausible theory can be distinguished from mere ideology. This collection was written over a span of forty-four years and is presented in the belief that sociology is a science.In Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science, James D. Wright presents his research on some of the social issues that have most vexed America: homelessness, addiction, divorce, minimum wage, and gun control, among others. Starting with essays first published in the flagship journal Society, Wright offers readers a foundational look at specific social problems and the methods sociologists have used to study them. He then provides an up-to-date re-examination of each issue, analysing the changes that have occurred over time and how sociologists have responded to it.This book is both a retrospective on the field and on one scholar's life and work. Using his own experience in researching and writing about America's most trenchant social issues, Wright describes the evolution of the methods and theory used by social scientists to understand and, ultimately, to confront America's most troublesome social problems.

Author : Vincent N. Parrillo
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1209 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1412941652

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From terrorism to social inequality and from health care to environmental issues, social problems affect us all. The Encyclopedia will offer an interdisciplinary perspective into these and many other social problems that are a continuing concern in our lives, whether we confront them on a personal, local, regional, national, or global level.

Author : Anna Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,84 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781331338451

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Excerpt from Social Problems: Outlines and References Speaking of the elective system in our secondary schools, a prominent teacher recently said: "In the matter of citizenship, there can be no liberty of choice. All young people must be trained to be good citizens and the school must prescribe the subjects. As most of our political problems rest upon a basis - ethical, economic, or sociological, all students should be required to study Ethics, Economics, and Sociology." Social Problems: Outlines and References offers to high school seniors a course which presents some of the ethical and sociological implications that underlie our civic and economic activities. The course aims to widen the student's societary outlook, to enlarge his reading horizon, to suggest standards by which social values may be measured, and to inspire him with a spirit of community idealism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Adam Jamrozik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 1998-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521599320

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Social problems such as unemployment, poverty and drug addiction are a fact of life in industrialised societies. This book examines the sociology of social problems from interesting and challenging perspectives. It analyses how social problems emerge and are defined as such, who takes responsibility for them, who is threatened by them and how they are managed, solved or ignored. The authors examine and critique existing theories of social problems before developing their own theoretical framework. Their 'theory of residualist conversion of social problems' explains how certain social problems threaten legitimate power structures, so that problems of a social or political nature are transformed into personal problems, and the 'helping professions' are left to intervene. This book will become a key reference on class, inequality and social intervention and an important text for students in sociology and social work courses.