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Anna Leon-Guerrero has written an accessible and insightful text which encourages students to play an active part in their own communities. Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action provides an awareness that our personal experiences with problems that may arise in families, the workplace, health and medicine, the media, cities and suburbs, or with drug abuse, poverty, crime, the environment, and war and terrorism are caused by structural or social forces. Unlike other texts, the book offers a balanced view through examining both the problems and attempts to resolve these pervasive social issues.
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Leon-Guerrero's (sociology, Pacific Lutheran U.) textbook offers students a better understanding of the connections between sociology and social problems, and between social problems and their solutions, and encourages students to both recognize social problems and identify how they will be part of the solution in their communities. In addition to discussion of inequality based on social class, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, and age, the text covers social problems in relation to families, education, the workplace, health and medicine, drug abuse, poverty, crime, the media, cities and suburbs, the environment, and war and terrorism. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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