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Social Problems: A Service Learning Approach

Autor Corey W. Dolgon, Christopher W. Baker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 sep 2010
In this unique new text, Corey Dolgon integrates an innovative case study approach into a comprehensive introduction that helps students understand how they can address social problems in their communities by applying basic theories and concepts. He stresses how a sociological imagination not only informs how students understand the root causes of social ills but also offers powerful tools for engaging in solutions. Key Features:
• Engaging chapter-opening case studies
• Each chapter includes a detailed set of definitions and statistical portraits of problems
• Historical segments trace how particular problems have evolved
• The end-of-chapter feature "Voices from the Field" highlights a particular individual who is currently working to address the root causes of social problems.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761929475
ISBN-10: 0761929479
Pagini: 472
Dimensiuni: 187 x 232 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.78 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

“This book empowers the powerless and gives sociologists and their students a new vantage point for understanding.”

“Rich in examples of real service learning projects, this fresh look at social problems provides a unique text--both theoretical and practical—resulting in an exquisite book for service-learning courses of all kinds.”

“If you want to go beyond what's wrong to what you can do about it, get this book.”

Cuprins

Introduction. What are Social Problems and What Do Sociologists Do About Them?
1. Do We Make the World or Does the World Make Us? Concepts and Theories
2. Who Has, Who Hasn’t? Looking for Answers to Poverty, Inequality, and Homelessness
3. On the Job: Work, Workers and the Changing Nature of Labor
4. What Price Justice? Deviance, Crime and Building Community
5. Be it Ever So Humble: Changing Families in a Changing World
6. Who Breathes Easy? Protecting and Designing Our Environments
7. Why Can’t Johnny Read? Education in Crisis
8. Finding Ourselves: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Multiculturalism, and Identity
9. An Apple a Day? Health and Healthcare for All
10. The Whole Wide World Around: Globalization and Its Discontents

Notă biografică

Corey Dolgon, is a bright young scholar who is currently a Professor of Sociology and Director of Community-based Learning at Stonehill College, in Massachusetts. In addition, he is a Visiting Faculty at the Community Works Service-Learning Institute, in Los Angeles. His background includes a B.S. from Boston University, an M.A. from Baylor University and a Ph.D. from University of Michigan. He specializes in Urban Studies, Social Movements, Cultural and Marxist Studies, Community-based Research, and Applied Sociology. A highly-regarded teacher who regularly gets an "A" ratings from students, he is also widely published in magazines and scholarly journals. He has one book published with the NYU Press, The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Americäs Paradise, which has won two Book of the Year awards - one from the Association for Humanist Sociology and the other from the American Sociological Association¿s Marxist Section


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A comprehensive introduction that helps students understand how they can address social problems in their communities by applying basic sociological theories and concepts.