Understanding Social Problems by Caroline Schacht
Filled with current topics and relevant examples that illuminate the content, Mooney, Knox, and Schacht's UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMS provides you with a comprehensive, theoretically balanced exploration of 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 family problems, and then broadening to the larger issues of poverty and inequality, population growth, aging, environmental problems, and conflict around the world. The social problem in each chapter is framed in a global as well as a U.S. context. In addition, the three major theoretical perspectives are applied to the problem under discussion, and its consequences -- as well as alternative solutions -- are explored. Features such as The Human Side and Self and Society enable you to grasp how social problems affect the lives of individuals and apply your understanding of social problems to your own life.
Schacht, Caroline: - Caroline Schacht, M.A. in Sociology and M.A. in Child Development and Family Relations, is Instructor Emeritus at East Carolina University. She retired from a career teaching sociology to become a certified Romana's Pilates instructor. She is co-author of several textbooks and balances her time writing and revising, teaching Pilates in her home studio, and writing children's verses and songs for her grandchildren.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781305576513 |
| ISBN 10 | 1305576519 |
| Title | Understanding Social Problems |
| Author | Caroline Schacht |
| Series | Mindtap Course List Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wadsworth Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-02-03 |
| Number of pages | 537 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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