Understanding Social Problems by David Knox

Understanding Social Problems by David Knox

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.

David Knox, Ph.D., is an East Carolina University sociology professor who teaches courting and marriage, marriage and the family, and the sociology of human sexuality. He is a marriage, family, and sex therapist who has written or cowritten twelve books and more than 130 professional articles. He often shares new findings with undergraduate and graduate students as well as colleagues at annual conferences. He and his wife, Caroline Schacht, have three children and five 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
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