This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems.
Understanding Social Problems
โ Scribed by Linda A. Mooney, David Knox, Caroline Schacht
- Publisher
- Thompson/Wadsworth
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 697
- Edition
- 5th
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
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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