Description
Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding these issues. Students learn how to distinguish between individual and structural analyses and the importance of placing issues in a historical and international context to gain a clearer understanding. In so doing, students come to appreciate that sociology is a hypothesis-testing discipline. The author uses metaphors, vignettes, and humor to convey the fundamental concepts, key findings, and methods by which sociologists understand social problems.
Table of Contents
1 The Study of Social Problems * 2 Abortion * 3 Gender Inequality * 4 Racial and Ethnic Inequality * 5 Poverty * Drugs * 6 Homicide * 7 An Aging Population * 8 Health * 9 Reflections on Social Problems
