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Social problems: community policy and social action

By: Publication details: Los Angeles Pine Forge Press 2009Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxi, 517 pISBN:
  • 9781412959667
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.10973
Summary: This Second Edition of Social Problems: Community, Policy and Social Action offers an integrated approach to topics of race, class, and gender, with an emphasis on critical thinking and active learning throughout the book. Social problems are approached from four theoretical perspectives (conflict, social interactionist, functionalist and feminist perspectives), any yet also humanized, with voices of experience (those suffering the social problem, i.e. the poverty stricken) and voices of change (social workers, policy makers and so on). (Source: www.sagepub.co.uk)
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 25-A / Slot 1131 (0 Floor, East Wing) General Stacks 361.10973 L3S6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 167026

Includes bibliographical references (p. 444-495) and index.

This Second Edition of Social Problems: Community, Policy and Social Action offers an integrated approach to topics of race, class, and gender, with an emphasis on critical thinking and active learning throughout the book. Social problems are approached from four theoretical perspectives (conflict, social interactionist, functionalist and feminist perspectives), any yet also humanized, with voices of experience (those suffering the social problem, i.e. the poverty stricken) and voices of change (social workers, policy makers and so on). (Source: www.sagepub.co.uk)

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