Framing 21st Century Social Issues – serie
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How Ethical Systems Change: Eugenics, the Final Solution, Bioethics
Av Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Julie Beicken
Häftad, 2011
622 kr
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Mandatory sterilization laws enacted in dozens of states coast-to-coast and approved by the U.S. Supreme Court formed the initial pillar for what became the Final Solution. Following WWII, there was renewed interest in a more inclusive view of social worth and the autonomy of the individual. Social …
How Ethical Systems Change: Abortion and Neonatal Care
Av Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Elyshia Aseltine
Häftad, 2011
607 kr
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Roe v. Wade came like a bolt from the blue, but support had been building for years. For many, the idea that life in the womb was not fully protected under the Constitution was simply not acceptable. Political campaigns were organized and protests launched, including the bombing of clinics and the …
How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying
Av Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Elyshia Aseltine
Häftad, 2011
599 kr
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Medical advances prolong life. They also sometimes prolong suffering. Should we protect life or alleviate suffering? This dilemma formed the foundation for a powerful right-to-die movement and a counterbalancing concern over an emerging culture of death. What are the qualities of a life worth …
How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment
Av Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Danielle Dirks
Häftad, 2011
607 kr
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Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these connections gave rise to a small but well-focused reform movement. Biased and perfunctory procedures were replaced by prolonged trials and appeals, which some found messy and …
Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty
Häftad, 2012
607 kr
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Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical …
DIY: The Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century
Av Kevin Wehr
Häftad, 2012
622 kr
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From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas’s colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx’s concepts of alienation …
Due Process Denied: Detentions and Deportations in the United States
Häftad, 2012
557 kr
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Due process protections are among the most important Constitutional protections in the United States, yet they do not apply to non-citizens facing detention and deportation. Due Process Denied describes the consequences of this lack of due process through the stories of deportees and detainees. …
Girls with Guns
Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism
Häftad, 2013
607 kr
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A nuanced understanding of state violence and gender (in)equalities must consider the varied and contradictory experiences of armed civilian women, female soldiers, and opponents of gun possession. How is ‘feminism’ and ‘femininity’ negotiated in the early 21st century by civilian and military …
Foreign Remedies: What the Experience of Other Nations Can Tell Us about Next Steps in Reforming U.S. Health Care
Häftad, 2012
625 kr
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act marked a watershed in U.S. health policy, but controversy over its passage rages on, and much uncertainty surrounds the law’s transformation from blueprint into operational program. How can the experience of other nations help us to reconcile the …
Torture
A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights
Av Lisa Hajjar
Häftad, 2012
607 kr
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Torture is indisputably abhorrent. Why, you might ask, would you even want to think or read about torture? That is a very good question, and one this book addresses in a compelling and enlightening way. Torture is a very important issue, not least because millions of people around the world have …
Terror
Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives
Av Mark Worrell
Häftad, 2012
607 kr
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About the SeriesThe goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60-page-or-shorter formats, and available for view on …
Unequal Prospects
Is Working Longer the Answer?
Av Tay McNamara, John Williamson
Häftad, 2013
388 kr
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In light of the recent financial crisis and changing economic landscape, McNamara and Williamson present and analyze the possibility of working longer. Including a range of potential policies (e.g., further increasing the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits, allocating more …
Enduring Color Line in U.S. Athletics
Av Krystal Beamon, Chris M. Messer
Häftad, 2013
607 kr
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Sports are an integral part of American society. Millions of dollars are spent every year on professional, collegiate, and youth athletics, and participation in and viewing of these sports both alter and reflect how one perceives the world. Beamon and Messer deftly explore sports as a social …
Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex
Crime and Incarceration in the 21st Century
Av Kevin Wehr, Elyshia Aseltine
Häftad, 2013
607 kr
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This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and its impact on society. Wehr and Aseltine define the prison industrial complex and explain how the current prison system is a contemporary social problem. They conclude …
From Trafficking to Terror
Constructing a Global Social Problem
Häftad, 2013
622 kr
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A panic surrounds human trafficking and terrorism. The socially constructed 'war on terror’ and ‘war on trafficking’ are linked through discourses that not only combine the two, but help promote an anti-Muslim sentiment. Using ethnographic data and stories, From Trafficking to Terror presents the …
Identity Problems in the Facebook Era
Häftad, 2013
607 kr
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How have new social media altered how individuals present themselves? What dilemmas have they introduced? In the age of Facebook, Twitter and other forms of instant communication, individuals are losing (or relinquishing) control over their personal information! Trottier provides a trenchant …
Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives
The Power of Race, Class, and Gender
Av Natalia Sarkisian, Naomi Gerstel
Häftad, 2012
607 kr
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Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family – with its exclusion of the extended family – is narrow, even deleterious, and misses much of family life. This omission is tied to gender, race, and class. This book is broken down into six chapters. …
Changing Times for Black Professionals
Häftad, 2010
607 kr
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This book is a study of the challenges, issues, and obstacles facing black professional workers in the United States. Though they have always been a part of the U.S. labor force, black professionals have often been overlooked in media, research, and public opinion. Ironically, however, their …
Contentious Identities
Ethnic, Religious and National Conflicts in Today's World
Häftad, 2010
607 kr
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This book analyzes widespread global ethnic conflicts that tear asunder nations and regions, such as the former Yugoslavia. Dan Chirot casts his analysis in a discussion of the conflict between national and ethnic identity, discovering that ethnic identity, rooted in centuries of tradition and …
Empire Versus Democracy
The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power
Av Carl Boggs
Häftad, 2011
607 kr
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In Empire Versus Democracy, Carl Boggs traces the authoritarian trajectory of American politics since World War II, with emphasis on the growing concentration of corporate and military power that has accompanied the United States assumption of leading superpower on the world scene. The rise of the …
Rapid Climate Change
Causes, Consequences, and Solutions
Häftad, 2011
607 kr
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The book reviews the science of climate change and explains why it is one of the most difficult problems humanity has ever tackled. Climate change is a "wicked" problem bound up with problems of population growth, environmental degradation, and world problems of growing social and economic …
Sex, Drugs, and Death
Addressing Youth Problems in American Society
Häftad, 2010
607 kr
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Sex, Drugs, and Death: Addressing Youth Problems in American Society explores how youth lifestyles, identity pursuits, behaviors and activities produce a wide range of social problems in contemporary society. The book focuses on the interconnections between three of the most significant youth …
Future of Higher Education
Av Dan Clawson, Max Page
Häftad, 2010
590 kr
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Higher education is more important than ever, for individual success and for national economic growth. And yet higher education in the United States is in crisis: public funding has been in free fall; tuition has skyrocketed making colleges and universities less accessible; basic structures such as …
Problem of Emotions in Societies
Häftad, 2010
607 kr
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Like any other valued resource, emotions are distributed unequally. Moreover, emotions are a generalized resource because they give people the confidence, or lack of confidence, to secure additional types of resources. Thus, this distribution of emotions roughly corresponds to the shares of others …
Stupidity Epidemic
Worrying About Students, Schools, and America’s Future
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 2010
590 kr
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Critics often warn that American schools are failing, and that our students are ill-prepared for the challenges the future holds, and may even be "the dumbest generation." We can think of these claims as warning about a Stupidity Epidemic. This essay begins by tracing the history of the idea of …
Waste and Consumption
Capitalism, the Environment, and the Life of Things
Häftad, 2010
607 kr
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This book examines the link between waste and consumption through a cultural approach that integrates environmental concerns with reflections on the role that consumption has come to occupy in our contemporary capitalist societies. The mutual relationship between capitalism and consumption is …
Why Nations Go to War
A Sociology of Military Conflict
Häftad, 2010
607 kr
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The United States has been involved in many wars, sometimes for noble causes like defeating Nazism, and, at other times, it has compromised its own ideals, leading to a lot of soul searching and regrets. Some wars are celebrated as glorious achievements (World War II), some are ‘forgotten’ (Korea), …
Pains of Mass Imprisonment
Av Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Jamie Longazel
Häftad, 2025
599 kr
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This engaging book presents a critical approach to understanding prison conditions in the United States in the era of mass incarceration. Fleury-Steiner and Longazel do this by weaving together empirical research on prisons with stories that rely on the voices and lived experiences of people who …
Pains of Mass Imprisonment
Av Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Jamie Longazel
Inbunden, 2025
2323 kr
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This engaging book presents a critical approach to understanding prison conditions in the United States in the era of mass incarceration. Fleury-Steiner and Longazel do this by weaving together empirical research on prisons with stories that rely on the voices and lived experiences of people who …
Social Problems
A Human Rights Perspective
Av Eric Bonds
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective, Second Edition evaluates U.S. society through an international human rights framework. The book provides a critical discussion about what rights mean, along with a sociological exploration of power and inequality to explain why human rights are so often …
