Description
Appropriate for Social Problems courses.
With a critical, conflict perspective, this text looks at the social structures and inequalities that contribute to social problems.
Taking a conflict approach, top-selling Social Problems 12e focuses on the underlying features of the social world in an effort to help students to understand today's social problems.
What is the Pearson Census Update Edition?
The Census Update edition incorporates 2010 Census data into a course—simply and easily. The components of the Census Update Program are as follows:
- Census Update Edition - Features fully updated data throughout the text—including all charts and graphs—to reflect the results of the 2010 Census. This edition also includes a reproduction of the 2010 Census Questionnaire for your students to explore in detail.
- 2010 Census Update Primer - A brief seven-chapter overview of the Census, including important information about the Constitutional mandate, research methods, who is affected by the Census, and how data is used. Additionally, the primer explores key contemporary topics such as race and ethnicity, the family, and poverty. The primer can be packaged with any Pearson text at no additional cost, and is available via MySocLab, MySocKit, and MySearchLab. The primer can also be purchased standalone.
- 2010 Census Update Primer Instructor’s Manual with Test Bank - Includes explanations of what has been updated, in-class activities, homework activities associated with the MyLabs and MyKits, discussion questions for the primer, and test questions related to the primer.
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- MySocLab - Gives students the opportunity to explore the methods and data and apply the results in a dynamic interactive online environment. It includes:
- primary source readings relevant to the Census
- an online version of the 2010 Census Update Primer
- a series of activities using 2010 Census results
- video clips explaining and exploring the Census
This Books a la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-holed punched, loose-leaf version of the the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalize their book by incorporating their own notes and taking only the portion of the book they need to class - all at a fraction of the bound book price.
Table of Contents
IN THIS SECTION:
1. BRIEF
2. COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I Political Economy of Social Problems
1 The Sociological Approach to Social Problems
2 Wealth and Power: The Bias of the System
Part II Problems of People, the Environment, and Location
3 World Population and Global Inequality
4 Threats to the Environment
5 Demographic Changes in the United States: The Browning and Graying of Society
6 Problems of Place: Urban, Suburban, and Rural
Part III Problems of Inequality
7 Poverty
8 Racial and Ethnic Inequality
9 Gender Inequality
10 Sexual Orientation
11 Disability and Ableism
Part IV Social Structure and Individual Deviance
12 Crime and Justice
13 Drugs
Part V Institutional Problems
14 The Economy and Work
15 Families
16 Education
17 The Health Care System
18 National Security in the Twenty-First Century
Part VI Solutions
19 Progressive Plan to Solve Social Problems
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I Political Economy of Social Problems
Chapter 1 The Sociological Approach to Social Problems
History of Social Problems Theory
Toward a Definition of Social Problems
Types of Social Problems
Norm Violations
Social Conditions
The Sociological Imagination
Social Structure as the Basic Unit of Analysis
Person-Blame Approach versus System-B
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