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9780534190149

Social Problems

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  • ISBN13:

    9780534190149

  • ISBN10:

    0534190146

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-09-01
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
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Summary

Instead of just describing social problems, this book helps students develop active critical thinking skills through evaluating and analyzing readings from social scientists and journalists on major social problems. The authors goal is to teach students to be lifelong critical consumers of journalistic and social scientific accounts of all kinds of social problems.

Table of Contents

A Framework for Critical Analysis
Social Problems: Constructed Realities of Civic Knowledge
Social Problems: Discourse About Private Troubles and Public Issues
Guidelines for Critical Reasoning
Applying Guidelines: A Case Study In Critical Reasoning
Case Studies From Journalism and Sociology
Inequality and Gender
Women in the Third World
Social Classes and Welfare Policy
Race and Social Inequality
Race and Employment Opportunities
Drugs: Licit and Illicit
Street Crime and Gangs
White-Collar Crime
The Homeless
Health and Medical Care
Mental Health
Aids
Abortion
Stratifying the Classroom
Market Choice Versus The Common School
School Dropouts
Population Growth and the Environment
The Environment and the Market
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