Social problems : community, policy, and social action /
By: Leon-Guerrero, Anna
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Publisher: Thousand Oaks : Pine Forge Press, 2005Description: xvi, 471 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0761987827 (pbk.); 9780761987826:.Subject(s): Social problems -- United States | Critical thinking | Social problemsDDC classification: 361.10973 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sociology and the study of social problems -- The bases of inequality : social class, ethnicity, and race -- The bases of inequality II : sex and gender, sexual orientation, and age -- Families -- Education -- The workplace -- Health and medicine -- Drug abuse -- Poverty -- Crime -- Media -- Cities and suburbs -- Environment -- War and terrorism -- Social and community action.
Offering a sociological perspective on social problems, this book provides an awareness that our personal experiences with problems that may arise in families, the workplace, health & medicine, the media, cities & suburbs, or with drug abuse, poverty, crime, etc. are often caused by structural or social forces.