Sara Towe Horsfall

Social Problems (eBook, ePUB)

An Advocate Group Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book represents a truly innovative and empowering approach to social problems. Instead of focusing solely on a seemingly tireless list of major problems, Sara Towe Horsfall considers how select key issues can be solved and pays particular attention to the advocate groups already on the front lines. Horsfall first provides a robust theoretical foundation to the study of social problems before moving on to the problems themselves, examining each through the lens of specific advocate groups working towards solutions. This concise and accessible text also incorporates useful learning tools including study questions to help reinforce reading comprehension, questions for further thought to encourage critical thinking and classroom discussion, a glossary of key terms, and a worksheet for researching advocate groups. Social Problems: An Advocate Group Approach is an essential resource for social problems courses and for anyone who is inspired to effect change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429972737
• Artikelnr.: 56842045

Autorenporträt

Sara Towe Horsfall is associate professor of sociology at Texas Wesleyan University. She is coeditor of Chaos, Complexity, and Sociology and author of A Neighborhood Portrait. She has also worked as a foreign correspondent and international journalist, giving her unique insight into social problems and their solutions around the world.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I: THE THEORETICAL BASIS OF THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS CHAPTER
ONE What Is a Social Problem? Six Ingredients of Social Problems How Do
Social Problems Occur? Levels of Social Problems Information and Claims
Making CHAPTER TWO Understanding Advocate Groups Who Are the Advocate
Groups? Why Do Advocate Groups Form? Three Views of Human Nature Dynamics
Within Advocate Groups Growth and Development of Advocate Groups A Typology
of Advocate Group Change CHAPTER THREE Ameliorating Actions, Reactions, and
Consequences PART I: Ameliorating Actions Legal Reform Government Programs
Professional Agencies, Nonprofits, and Special Interest Groups Education
and Public Awareness Campaigns Interpersonal Interaction, Apology,
Reparation Independent, Individual Actions PART II: Reactions and
Consequences Opposition Groups: Campaigning Against Reform Consequences for
the Target Group Unintended Consequences Assessing Overall Social Benefit
CHAPTER FOUR Social Dynamics: The Change Process and Models of Change PART
I: Processes/Patterns of Change Change Is Linear: Progress and Evolution
Change Is Cyclical: Growth and Decay Change Is Dialectical: Thesis,
Antithesis, Synthesis Other Ideas of Social Change Causes of Change PART
II: Models for Social Change Human Interaction Organizational Principles
Technology SECTION II: THE PROBLEMS CHAPTER FIVE Problems Addressed Through
Government Programs Health Care Social Security Welfare CHAPTER SIX
Problems Addressed Through Government Legislation Discrimination Illegal
Immigration CHAPTER SEVEN Problems Addressed Through Professional
Organizations, Nonprofit Groups, and Special Interest Groups Drugs and
Alcohol Homelessness Domestic Violence (Spousal/Partner and Child Abuse)
Teen Suicide and Gangs CHAPTER EIGHT Problems with Active Opposition Groups
Abortion Gender Discrimination Euthanasia Homosexuality CHAPTER NINE
Problems Addressed Through Education and Public Awareness, Interpersonal
Interaction, Reparation, Apology, and Independent Individual Action Global
Warming and Pollution Natural Resources: Water, Land, Energy, Endangered
Species, and Rain Forests Sexually Transmitted Diseases/AIDS Rape, Date
Rape, and Spousal Rape Prostitution Appendixes Social Problem Analysis
Worksheet Advocate Groups Notes on Similarities and Contrasts of Social
Problems Textbooks Glossary Sources Index