Reading Between The Lines: Toward an Understanding of Current Social Problems / Edition 3

Reading Between The Lines: Toward an Understanding of Current Social Problems / Edition 3

ISBN-10:
0072821523
ISBN-13:
9780072821529
Pub. Date:
07/31/2003
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Companies, The
ISBN-10:
0072821523
ISBN-13:
9780072821529
Pub. Date:
07/31/2003
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Reading Between The Lines: Toward an Understanding of Current Social Problems / Edition 3

Reading Between The Lines: Toward an Understanding of Current Social Problems / Edition 3

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Overview

Drawing from a wide selection of current research and writings, Reading Between the Lines brings together accessible readings that examine a broad range of social problems and reflect different conceptual approaches. The text provides a conceptual framework for understanding social problems and enables an integrated race, class, and gender analysis.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780072821529
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 07/31/2003
Edition description: REV
Pages: 720
Product dimensions: 7.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
General Introduction
PART I. THINKING ABOUT SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Alexander Liazos, The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts, and Perverts • Elizabeth Szockyj and Nancy Frank, Corporate Victimization of Women • Donileen R. Loeske, Social Problems Work and the Reproduction of Public Problems • John N. Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies
PART II. POWER, THE ECONOMY, AND CLASS
William Greider, One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism • York W. Bradshaw and Michael Wallace, Constructing a Model of Global Inequalities • Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Have-Mores and Have-Lesses • David M. Gordon, Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial “Downsizing”
PART III. POVERTY
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