[This book] is intended for use in a college-level sociology course.-Pref. With this book's broad overview of critical social problems and its ... stories of real people struggling with the challenges created by social problems, you'll ... see the ... need to design strategies f…
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 fa…
This second edition of a classroom text devotes more attention to new social movements that emphasize social change through identity transformation rather than through structural change, and looks more closely at the importance of emotion in constructing public consciousness of …
