Social Problems

A Service Learning Approach
Corey W. Dolgon - Stonehill College, USA
Christopher W. Baker - Walters State Community College
Social Problems
August 2010 | 472 pages | Sage US
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“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

Find out more at www.sagepub.com/sociologyaward



Contents

Introduction. What are Social Problems and What Do Sociologists Do About Them?

Introduction. 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 Theories

1. Do We Make the World or Does the World Make Us? Concepts and Theories

2. Who Has, Who Hasn’t? Looking for Answers to Poverty, Inequality, and Homelessness

2. Who Has, Who Hasn’t? Looking for Answers to Poverty, Inequality, and Homelessness

3. On the Job: Work, Workers and the Changing Nature of Labor

3. On the Job: Work, Workers and the Changing Nature of Labor

4. What Price Justice? Deviance, Crime and Building Community

4. What Price Justice? Deviance, Crime and Building Community

5. Be it Ever So Humble: Changing Families in a Changing World

5. Be it Ever So Humble: Changing Families in a Changing World

6. Who Breathes Easy? Protecting and Designing Our Environments

6. Who Breathes Easy? Protecting and Designing Our Environments

7. Why Can’t Johnny Read? Education in Crisis

7. Why Can’t Johnny Read? Education in Crisis

8. Finding Ourselves: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Multiculturalism, and Identity

8. Finding Ourselves: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Multiculturalism, and Identity

9. An Apple a Day? Health and Healthcare for All

9. An Apple a Day? Health and Healthcare for All

10. The Whole Wide World Around: Globalization and Its Discontents

10. The Whole Wide World Around: Globalization and Its Discontents

Description

CourseSmart

“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

Find out more at www.sagepub.com/sociologyaward



Contents

Introduction. What are Social Problems and What Do Sociologists Do About Them?

Introduction. 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 Theories

1. Do We Make the World or Does the World Make Us? Concepts and Theories

2. Who Has, Who Hasn’t? Looking for Answers to Poverty, Inequality, and Homelessness

2. Who Has, Who Hasn’t? Looking for Answers to Poverty, Inequality, and Homelessness

3. On the Job: Work, Workers and the Changing Nature of Labor

3. On the Job: Work, Workers and the Changing Nature of Labor

4. What Price Justice? Deviance, Crime and Building Community

4. What Price Justice? Deviance, Crime and Building Community

5. Be it Ever So Humble: Changing Families in a Changing World

5. Be it Ever So Humble: Changing Families in a Changing World

6. Who Breathes Easy? Protecting and Designing Our Environments

6. Who Breathes Easy? Protecting and Designing Our Environments

7. Why Can’t Johnny Read? Education in Crisis

7. Why Can’t Johnny Read? Education in Crisis

8. Finding Ourselves: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Multiculturalism, and Identity

8. Finding Ourselves: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Multiculturalism, and Identity

9. An Apple a Day? Health and Healthcare for All

9. An Apple a Day? Health and Healthcare for All

10. The Whole Wide World Around: Globalization and Its Discontents

10. The Whole Wide World Around: Globalization and Its Discontents

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Social Problems

A Service Learning Approach

Corey W. Dolgon , Christopher W. Baker
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August 2010 | 472 pages | Sage US

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CourseSmart

“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

Find out more at www.sagepub.com/sociologyaward




Table Of Contents:

  • Introduction. 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 Theories
  • 2. Who Has, Who Hasn’t? Looking for Answers to Poverty, Inequality, and Homelessness
  • 3. On the Job: Work, Workers and the Changing Nature of Labor
  • 4. What Price Justice? Deviance, Crime and Building Community
  • 5. Be it Ever So Humble: Changing Families in a Changing World
  • 6. Who Breathes Easy? Protecting and Designing Our Environments
  • 7. Why Can’t Johnny Read? Education in Crisis
  • 8. Finding Ourselves: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Multiculturalism, and Identity
  • 9. An Apple a Day? Health and Healthcare for All
  • 10. The Whole Wide World Around: Globalization and Its Discontents

Recent Product Reviews:

Did not like approach to applying sociological imagination. Lacks effective layout of content for my syllabi. Too much practical approaches and not enough theory in my personal opinion. Enjoying using service learning pair with constructionist text for social problems. Too structural of a approach
Mr Taylor Cannon, Social Behavioral Science Dept, Mendocino College
Content has excellent theory integration and additional materials for faculty as well as students are substantive and relevant for this course.
Mr Joseph Ely, Anthropology Sociology Dept, California State University - Bakersfield
Geared toward 4 yr students who have time for big projects. Great book but not for 2 yr college.
Ms Kathleen Holmes, Social Science Division, Darton College
The service learning/community focus made this decision easy! I'm looking forward to redesigning the course for use with this text.Again, "relevant" not "relevent.""
Professor M Sheridan Embser-Herbert, Sociology Dept, Hamline University
I will use this when I teach Social Problems next year. I have passed it on to my colleague who is teaching Social Problems now.
Dr Shelley Koch, Sociology Anthropology Dept, Emory and Henry College

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