Product Description

Updated throughout, with a writing style that engages both 2- and 4-year college students, the Second Edition of Anna Leon-Guerrero's popular Social Problems textbook humanizes social problems and addresses their consequences while emphasizing community awareness and action. The text focuses on inequalities, examining how race and ethnicity, gender, social class, sexual orientation, and age determine our life chances. Each chapter includes a discussion of relevant social policies or programs and highlights how individuals or groups have made a difference in their communities. Although the book looks primarily at the United States, global perspectives are interwoven where appropriate. Pedagogical features and a companion study site provide a platform for discussion that encourages critical thinking about the problems presented. Social Problems, Second Edition, is an ideal brief core undergraduate text for Social Problems courses in departments of sociology and social work.

ISBN 9781412959667Edition 02Binding Paper