Focus on Social Problems: A Contemporary Reader exposes students to current issues in the field. The selections in this reader help students understand how social problems are defined and constructed, increase their empirical knowledge about the causes and consequences of social problems, and develop empathy. Working from a critical social constructionist foundation, the readings address a wide variety of social problems. Editors Mindy Stombler and Amanda M. Jungels include a combination of research-based articles and popular media pieces. Each chapter opens with an interview of a social-change activist doing work related to the chapter's featured social problem, giving students an opportunity to envision themselves as agents of social change.

Focus on Social Problems: A Contemporary Reader

Politics & Social Sciences

Stombler, Mindy

Jungels, Amanda M.

Sociology

Oxford University Press

This exciting new text is a collection of over 50 readings from contemporary scholarly literature, discussing the dual forces of social construction and social control of sexuality. By also including selections from mainstream media, such as The New York Times Magazine and trade books, the authors make controversial and complex topics more approachable for students.

Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader

Self-Help

Baunach, Dawn M.

Burgess, Elisabeth O.

Donnelly, Denise

Simonds, Wendy

Baunach, Dawn Michelle

Allyn&Bacon

This anthology of almost 70 readings--from contemporary scholarly literature, trade books, popular media, as well as contributed articles-- examines the many ways in which human sexuality is socially constructed and regulated behavior, and how it is studied by social scientists.

Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader (2nd Edition)

This anthology of almost 60 readings--from contemporary scholarly literature, trade books, popular media, as well as contributed articles-- examines the many ways in which human sexuality is socially constructed and regulated behavior, and how it is studied by social scientists.

Windsor, Elroi J.

Pearson College Div

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