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This sociology text focuses on problems of well-being, inequality, and globalization, with an increased emphasis on wealth and economic inequality in this edition. Chapters address physical and mental health and health care; alcohol and other drugs; crime and social control; poverty; family problems; work and unemployment; education; race, ethnicity, and immigration; gender inequality; sexual orientation and equality; population growth and aging; environmental problems; science and technology; and conflict, war, and terrorism. It has new opening vignettes and critical thinking sections, updated and new features, a new photo essay on global obesity, a new essay on companion animals and homeless individuals, and updated research, data, tables, figures, and new photos, in addition to new and revised material in each chapter. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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Mooney, Knox, and Schacht's UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMS uses a theoretically balanced, reader-friendly approach to provide a comprehensive exploration of social problems. The book 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 U.S. context. In every chapter, the three major theoretical perspectives are applied to the social problem under discussion, and the consequences of the problem, as well as alternative solutions, are explored. Pedagogical features such as "Animals and Society," "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.
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