Social Problems - Brossura

Eitzen, D. Stanley; Zinn, Maxine Baca; Smith, Kelly Eitzen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0205547966 ISBN 13: 9780205547968

Casa editrice: Pearson College Div, 2008

Riassunto

Taking a conflict approach, Eitzen and Baca Zinn focus on the underlying features of the social world in an effort to help students to understand today's social problems.

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Recensione

 

"I like the perspective adopted by Eitzen and Baca Zinn. It is explicitly political and does a good job tying each specific social problem to a critical, intersectional analysis."

Kathleen J. Ferraro

NAU

 

"The text’s foci on critical awareness and social justice are the main reasons I use it. No other social problems text does a better job at raising critical awareness of the full nature and extent of the social problems currently faced by the global community. "

Craig A. Swanson

North Central Michigan College

 

"The authors have done an excellent job of keeping all of these materials (statistics, references, examples, and photos) updated and up-to-date."

C. William Hall

North Carolina State University

 

"I adopted this text because of its progressive approach to analyzing social problems and the discussion of possible solutions at the end of the book. I especially like the fact that the book takes a stance against the status quo....It is part of what makes this book unique."

Larry R. Ridener

Pfeiffer University

 

 

L'autore

D. Stanley Eitzen is professor emeritus in sociology from Colorado State University, where previously he was the John N. Stern Distinguished Professor.  He recieved his Ph.D. from the Unitsity of Kansas.  Among his books are: Social Problems, which was awarded the McGuffey Longevity Award for excellence over multiple editions in 2000 by the Text and Academic Authors Association, and Diversity in Families (both co-authored with Maxine Baca Zinn), Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from Other Societies (with Graig S. Leeham) ,  Paths to Homelessness: Extreme Poverty and the Urban Housing Crisis (with Doug A. Timmer and Kathryn Talley), Sociology of North American Sport (with George H. Sage,) and Fair and Foul: Rethinking the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport.  He has served as the president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and as editor of The Social Science Journal.

 

Kelly Eitzen Smith received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona in 1999.  She is currently the director of the Center for Applied Sociology and a lecturer at the University of Arizona.  At the Center for Applied Sociology she has conducted research in the areas of day labor, homelessness, poverty, urban housing and neighborhood development. Her sociological interests include gender, family, sexuality, stratification, and social problems.  She is the co-author of Experiencing Poverty, 1/e, Social Problems 11/e, and In Conflict and Order 12/e (forthcoming).

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• Editore: Pearson College Div
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0205547966
• ISBN 13: 9780205547968
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 652