Understanding social problems

by Mooney, Linda A.

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Title Statements

Full title :Understanding social problems / Linda A. Mooney, David Knox, Caroline Schacht.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2007.
Edition:5th ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Thomson Higher Education
Place of Publication:Belmont, CA
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 volume (various pagings) : : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0495091588, 9780495091585
oclc:ocm71007404
LC Classification:HN59.2
Dewey Decimal:361.10973

Thinking about social problems -- Illness and the health care crisis -- Alcohol and other drugs -- Crime and social control -- Family problems -- Poverty and economic inequality -- Work and unemployment -- Problems in education -- Race, ethnicity, and immigration -- Gender inequality -- Issues in sexual orientation -- Problems of youth and aging -- Population growth and urbanization -- Environmental problems -- Science and technology -- Conflict, war, and terrorism -- Epilogue -- Appendix: methods of data analysis -- Glossary -- References -- Credits -- Name index -- Subject index.

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