基本説明
Integrates 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.
Full Description
<"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
Contents
Introduction. What are Social Problems and What Do Sociologists Do About Them?
1. Do We Make the World or Does the World Make Us? Concepts and Theories
2. Who Has, Who Hasn't? Looking for Answers to Poverty, Inequality, and Homelessness
3. On the Job: Work, Workers and the Changing Nature of Labor
4. What Price Justice? Deviance, Crime and Building Community
5. Be it Ever So Humble: Changing Families in a Changing World
6. Who Breathes Easy? Protecting and Designing Our Environments
7. Why Can't Johnny Read? Education in Crisis
8. Finding Ourselves: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Multiculturalism, and Identity
9. An Apple a Day? Health and Healthcare for All
10. The Whole Wide World Around: Globalization and Its Discontents
