Social problems in a diverse society

Description

Social Problems in a Diverse Society focuses on the significance of social inequality, race, class, and gender as key factors in understanding problems in the U.S. and worldwide. Author Diana Kendall makes the study of social problems interesting and relevant to today’s students through authentic first-person accounts, up-to-date topics, and contemporary examples. The 7th Edition has been updated to include Social Media and Social Problems boxes that shed light on the ways that social media impacts social problems today, as well as new learning objectives that guide students through the text. Studying social problems in the twenty-first century -- Wealth and poverty : u.s. and global economic inequities -- Racial and ethnic inequality -- Gender inequality -- Inequality based on age -- Inequality based on sexual orientation -- Prostitution, pornography, and sex trafficking -- Alcohol and other drugs -- Crime and criminal justice -- Health care: problems of physical and mental illness -- The changing family -- Problems in education -- Problems in politics and the global economy -- Problems in the media -- Population, global inequality, and the environmental crisis -- Urban problems -- Global social problems : war and terrorism -- Can social problems be solved? -- Glossary -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.