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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Photographs; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMS AS SOCIAL CRISES: THE BASICS; Chapter 1 A Sociological Look at Social Crises; Developing a Sociological Perspective; The Sociological Imagination; What Is Culture?; Culture and Mass Media; Organization and Ownership of Media; Sociological Theory; Macro Theory; Micro Theory; Sociological Research: An Overview; Values and Social Research; Conducting Research; Looking Forward; Web Watch; Chapter 2 What Makes Us Unequal? |
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Life ChancesSocial Class Inequality; Poverty; Measuring Poverty; Poverty and the Great Recession; Social Status; Status and the Great Recession; Gender Inequality; The Social Construction of Gender; Gender and the Workplace; Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity; The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity; Defining Race; Defining Ethnicity; Experiencing Racism; The Intersections of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender; Race, Ethnicity, and Social Class; Gender, Race, and Class; Intersections in the Great Recession; Global Inequality: An Introduction; Categorizing Development |
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Global Inequality and Political PowerLooking Forward; Web Watch; PART II TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CRISES; Chapter 3 Crisis in Our Environment: Fossil Fuels and Climate Change; The Environmental Crisis as a Social Problem; Focus: Fossil Fuels and Climate Change; What Is Global Climate Change?; Effects of Climate Change; How Much Oil? Where Is It and Who Is Impacted?; Peak Oil; Oil as a Source of Conflict; Sociology of the Environment; The Sociological Imagination and the Environmental Crisis; Culture and the Environment; Energy, Climate Change, and Inequality; Applying Sociological Theory |
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Looking to the Future: Thinking Sociologically about Environmental IssuesLooking Forward; Web Watch; Chapter 4 Crisis in a Fragile World: Child Soldiers, Human Trafficking, and Genocide; Social Problems in the Developing World: An Overview; Fragile and Failed States; The Developing World and Environmental Problems; Globalization and Social Crises; Child Soldiers; Where Are the Child Soldiers?; Why Child Soldiers Today?; Human Trafficking; Defining Human Trafficking; Human Trafficking and Inequality; Responses to Human Trafficking; Genocide; Defining Genocide |
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The Rwandan Genocide: Colonial History Fueling Ethnic HatredDarfur: Sudan in Crisis; Sociology and the Global Crises; The Sociological Imagination in a Global Context; The Cultural Context of Global Problems; Inequality: The Global Context; Applying Sociological Theory; Conflict and Reconciliation: The Hope for Future Stability; Looking Backward/Looking Forward; Web Watch; Chapter 5 The Crisis in Health and Health Care: Obesity, HIV/AIDS, and Health-Care Reform; Brief Overview of Health and Health Care; Status of Health in the United States; Global Health; Health Crises: Obesity and HIV/AIDS |
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The Epidemic of Obesity |
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Social problems -- 21st century
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Social action -- 21st century
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Applied sociology.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Applied sociology
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Social action
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Social problems
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315631400 |
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1315631407 |
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