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Author : Joel Best
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social perception
ISBN : 0393283410
A complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem.
Author : Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135960131
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.
Author : Ira Silver
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544398631
Seeing Social Problems: The Hidden Stories Behind Contemporary Issues shows students how to think about social problems in a new way, by carefully analyzing headline-making issues they are already familiar with and illustrating the connection between individual problems and larger social forces. Each chapter engages students in thinking about the world sociologically by focusing on a specific case study that represents a more general social problem. The chapters always start with the knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and personal experiences that students bring to the case—what author Ira Silver refers to as the conventional wisdom—and effectively demonstrate to them the "first wisdom" of sociology: "things are not what they seem." In each instance, Silver shows how sociologists ask questions, gather empirical data, use multiple perspectives, and consider larger social forces to discover the "hidden stories" behind individual behavior. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.
Author : Linda A. Mooney,David Knox,Caroline Schacht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0357047648
PRODUCT ONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN CENGAGE UNLIMITED. UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMS, progresses from micro to macro analysis, focusing first on health care, drugs and alcohol, families, and crime and then looking at the larger issues of poverty and inequality, population growth, aging, environmental problems, and global conflict.
Author : Lorne Tepperman,James E. Curtis,Albert Kwan
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0195425006
This is a core text for courses in social problems. Using a strong Canadian perspective, it examines the social dynamics and consequences of social problems (such as unemployment, poverty, global inequality) through the lens of the main sociological paradigms. It takes a broad approach and examines the social construction of social problems and the impact of social problems on individual and societal health. Possible solutions for individuals and society at large are examined.
Author : John Alessio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317053569
Social Problems and Inequality explores integrated and root-cause-based explanations of complex social problems. Written in clear and understandable language, allowing it to be used for classroom purposes, it addresses the most fundamental principles of how humans, acting through social units, create, and eventually can remedy, social problems. With a central focus on the problem of inequality and the manner in which this is manifested in crime, social class and stratification, this book examines the key theoretical perspectives relevant to the study and solution of social problems, whilst drawing upon rich illustrations and case studies from the US and Europe to offer a thorough examination of the nature, common root causes and social remedies of social problems. Providing discussions of both theoretical approaches and concrete applications, Social Problems and Inequality investigates the sources of various prejudices and attitudes that contribute to social problems and the associated issues of globalization, economic greed and imperialism. Accessible in style and comprehensive in its coverage, this book will appeal to students and scholars of social problems across the social sciences.
Author : Malcolm Spector,John I. Kitsuse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351526333
There is no adequate definition of social problems within sociology, and there is not and never has been a sociology of social problems. That observation is the point of departure of this book. The authors aim to provide such a definition and to prepare the ground for the empirical study of social problems. They are aware that their objective will strike many fellow sociologists as ambitious, perhaps even arrogant. Their work challenges sociologists who have, over a period of fifty years, written treatises on social problems, produced textbooks cataloguing the nature, distribution, and causes of these problems, and taught many sociology courses. It is only natural that the authors' work will be viewed as controversial in light of the large literature which has established a "sociology of" a wide range of social problems-the sociology of race relations, prostitution, poverty, crime, mental illness, and so forth. In the 1970s when the authors were preparing for a seminar on the sociology of social problems, their review of the "literature" revealed the absence of any systematic, coherent statement of theory or method in the study of social problems. For many years the subject was listed and offered by university departments of sociology as a "service course" to present undergraduates with what they should know about the various "social pathologies" that exist in their society. This conception of social problems for several decades has been reflected in the substance and quality of the literature dominated by textbooks. In 'Constructing Social Problems', the authors propose that social problems be conceived as the claims-making activities of individuals or groups regarding social conditions they consider unjust, immoral, or harmful and that should be addressed. This perspective, as the authors have formulated it, conceives of social problems as a process of interaction that produces social problems as social facts in society. The authors further propose that this process and the social facts it produces are the data to be researched for the sociology of social problems. This volume will be of interest to those concerned with the discipline of sociology, especially its current theoretical development and growth.
Author : Joel Best
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social problems
ISBN : 0393918637
A complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem.
Author : Adam Jamrozik,Luisa Nocella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521599326
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.
Author : Vincent N. Parrillo
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1209 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781412941655
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 : Amir Marvasti,A. Javier Treviño
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351608404
This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and theories of social problems. Expository and discursive in approach, chapters follow a uniform structure, with each offering research examples and a broad description of the related method and its theoretical context, together with a "how-to" guide for applying that method using substantive examples from the field of social problems. For every method explored, there is a research example that fully reviews and illustrates the application of the particular method, before giving a full assessment of the method’s strengths and weaknesses and latest developments. With chapters exploring survey interviews, in-depth interviews, narrative inquiry, institutional ethnography, participatory action research, auto-ethnography, Actor-Network Theory, experimental research, visual research methods, and research ethics, Researching Social Problems will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics working in the fields of research methods and social problems.
Author : Corey Dolgon,Chris Baker
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483389325
“p>"This book empowers the powerless and gives sociologists and their students a new vantage point for understanding." —Judith Blau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In Social Problems: A Service Learning Approach, authors Corey Dolgon and Chris Baker integrate an innovative case study approach into a comprehensive introduction that helps students understand how they can address social problems in their communities by applying basic theories and concepts. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award
Author : Robert King Merton,Robert A. Nisbet
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Social problems
ISBN : UCAL:B3988462
Author : James A. Crone
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412993586
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 : Robert Hartmann McNamara
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Social action
ISBN : 0190056355
"For the past thirty years, I have been teaching, studying, and researching social problems in the US. The topics have always been challenging and fascinating, while at the same time they have been frustrating and often disappointing. I always found examples of social programs that were effective at targeting a specific aspect of a complex problem, but too often these extraordinary ideas were applied beyond their capacity. Then, once the program failed to be a panacea, policymakers discounted the actual value of the program in its original design. I felt a similar frustration when enormous resources were dedicated to programs that, while politically popular, had little chance at succeeding because they were based on inaccurate assessments of the problem. It is easy to see why students might feel that a social problems course offers little encouragement to find solutions. When I had the opportunity to write a comprehensive social problems textbook for Oxford University Press, I was presented with a moment to frame the issues in an objective way: to explain clearly and effectively not only the nature and complexity of specific social problems, but how sociological theory is a useful lens through which these problems can be understood. I also had the chance to point out that there are, in fact, solutions that work. As I tell my students, the question is not really what caused the problem -- we know these are social problems and that means they have social causes. The interesting question is: what we are willing as a society to do about them?"--