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Product Identifiers

PublisherSAGE Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100761929479

ISBN-139780761929475

eBay Product ID (ePID)2716730

Product Key Features

Number of Pages472 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSocial Problems : a Service Learning Approach

Publication Year2010

SubjectNon-Formal Education, Sociology / General, General

TypeNot Available

Subject AreaReference, Social Science, Education

AuthorChristopher W. Baker, Corey W. Dolgon

FormatBook, Other

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight27 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2010-020622

Dewey Edition23

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IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal361.1

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Table Of ContentIntroduction. 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 Theories2. Who Has, Who Hasn't? Looking for Answers to Poverty, Inequality, and Homelessness3. On the Job: Work, Workers and the Changing Nature of Labor4. What Price Justice? Deviance, Crime and Building Community5. Be it Ever So Humble: Changing Families in a Changing World6. Who Breathes Easy? Protecting and Designing Our Environments7. Why Can't Johnny Read? Education in Crisis8. Finding Ourselves: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Multiculturalism, and Identity9. An Apple a Day? Health and Healthcare for All10. The Whole Wide World Around: Globalization and Its Discontents

Synopsis< "This book empowers the powerless and gives sociologists and their students a new vantage point for understanding." --Judith Blau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In Social Problems: A Service Learning Approach, authors Corey Dolgon and Chris Baker integrate 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. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award, "This book empowers the powerless and gives sociologists and their students a new vantage point for understanding." --Judith Blau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In Social Problems: A Service Learning Approach, authors Corey Dolgon and Chris Baker integrate 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. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award, This book empowers the powerless and gives sociologists and their students a new vantage point for understanding. Judith Blau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In Social Problems: A Service-Learning Approach, authors Corey Dolgon and Chris Baker integrate 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. Key Features Engaging chapter-opening case studies immediately draw students into the discussion of the specific social problem addressed in that chapter. Each chapter includes a detailed set of definitions and statistical portraits of problems ranging from social and economic inequality to institutional inequalities in health, education, crime, and families. Historical segments trace how particular problems evolved and how various social movements have fundamentally shifted the nature and parameter of these problems. Each chapter concludes with additional case studies of students involved in service learning or community research projects. Each of these case studies includes questions asking students to apply concepts and theories covered in the chapter to the specific situation outlined in that case. 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. Other end-of-chapter features include chapter summary questions, a selective glossary and a list of helpful internet sites., A comprehensive introduction that helps students understand how they can address social problems in their communities by applying basic sociological theories and concepts., < "This book empowers the powerless and gives sociologists and their students a new vantage point for understanding." -Judith Blau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In Social Problems: A Service Learning Approach, authors Corey Dolgon and Chris Baker integrate 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. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award

LC Classification NumberHN17.5