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Understanding Social Problems | 
 enlarge | Authors: Linda A. Mooney, David Knox, Caroline Schacht
Publisher: Thompson/Wadsworth
Category: Book
List Price: $125.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 219363
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 579
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0495091588
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780495091585
ASIN: 0495091588
Publication Date: 2007
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Product Description
This is a comprehensive mid-level paperback text that takes a theoretically balanced, student-centered approach to social problems. The text 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, 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 The Human Side and Self and Society enable students to grasp how social problems affect the lives of individuals and apply their understanding of social problems to their own lives.
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 Good Book March 1, 2006
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I took a sociology class and it requested I purchase this book for the class. I really enjoyed the class along with the book. The information it contained was interesting which made it easy to read. All in all a good book!
 important lesson September 2, 2005
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
This textbook is not the current edition my class is using. Also the cd was missing. I do not blame the seller. It is my mistake as new to buying my textbooks online. The book was not entirely useless because basically only the statistics have changed. Compared to the the prices in my campus bookstore, this transaction was worthwhile.
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