The best-selling social problems text. With a critical, conflict perspective, this text looks at the social structures and inequalities that contribute to social problems. Taking a conflict approach, Eitzen and Baca Zinn focus on the underlying features of the social world in an effort to help students to understand today's social problems. The ...
This introductory text, written from a conflict perspective, emphasizes four themes: diversity, the struggle to achieve social justice, economic and global transformations in the U.S., and a global perspective. In Conflict and Order studies the forces that lead to both stability and change in society. As they examine the standard topics in an ...
This highly regarded text, written by an award-winning author team, treats family diversity as the norm , while highlighting how race, class, gender, and sexuality produce varieties of familial relationships. Diversity in Families looks at families not as "building blocks of societies" but rather, as products of social forces within society. The ...
This popular and thought-provoking reader collects 42 interesting and highly relevant articles that explore the process of globalization and how it shapes societies and groups. Particular focus is placed on the United States, its role in the globalization process, and whether the effects of globalization can be viewed as beneficial or harmful to ...
This engaging collection of readings presents a multifaceted view of contemporary gender relations. Using other inequalities such as race, class, and sexual orientation as a "prism of difference," the readings present gender as it is situated in sexual, racial-ethnic, social class, physical abilities, age, and national citizenship contexts. In ...
The theme of race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of oppression unites these original essays about the experience of women of color African Americans, Latinas, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. The contributing scholars discuss the social conditions that simultaneously oppress women of color and provide sites for opposition. Though ...
This highly regarded book treats diversity as the norm in family life, exploring the many varieties of familiar relationships in society today. This exploration of the socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic diversities in families views the family on both the macro and micro levels, examining the influence of larger social trends on personal ...
In the introduction to this book, the editors offer a way to conceptualize the interrelationships between gender relations and other systems of inequality and difference. The editors invoke the image of a prism, through which different groups are seen not as distinct, but in a continuous spectrum. The prism approach illustrates the varied ways ...
Adopting a sociological approach to social problems, this work provides a framework from which to analyze and understand society and the problems found therein. Among the issues tackled in the book are national security, especially domestic terrorism, new immigration, the elderly, class, and race.
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How do race, class and gender interrelate? How does the interlocking of race, class and gender form patterns of social relations and develop into hierarchical orders? What are the dilemmas and contradictions created by the simultaneity of race, class and gender? How can feminist scholarship based on the complex understanding of the interlocking ...
The theme of race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of oppression unites these original essays about the experience of women of color African Americans, Latinas, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. The contributing scholars discuss the social conditions that simultaneously oppress women of color and provide sites for opposition. Though ...
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