Angles Of Vision: How To Understand Social Problems
Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding these issues. Students learn how to distinguish between individual and structural analyses and the importance of placing issues in a historical and international context to gain a clearer understanding. In so doing, students come to appreciate that sociology is a hypothesis-testing discipline. The author uses metaphors, vignettes, and humor to convey the fundamental concepts, key findings, and methods by which sociologists understand social problems.
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Angles Of Vision: How To Understand Social Problems
Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding these issues. Students learn how to distinguish between individual and structural analyses and the importance of placing issues in a historical and international context to gain a clearer understanding. In so doing, students come to appreciate that sociology is a hypothesis-testing discipline. The author uses metaphors, vignettes, and humor to convey the fundamental concepts, key findings, and methods by which sociologists understand social problems.
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Angles Of Vision: How To Understand Social Problems

Angles Of Vision: How To Understand Social Problems

by Leonard Beeghley
Angles Of Vision: How To Understand Social Problems

Angles Of Vision: How To Understand Social Problems

by Leonard Beeghley

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Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding these issues. Students learn how to distinguish between individual and structural analyses and the importance of placing issues in a historical and international context to gain a clearer understanding. In so doing, students come to appreciate that sociology is a hypothesis-testing discipline. The author uses metaphors, vignettes, and humor to convey the fundamental concepts, key findings, and methods by which sociologists understand social problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780429981906
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/13/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Leonard Beeghley

Table of Contents

1 The Study of Social Problems * 2 Abortion * 3 Gender Inequality * 4 Racial and Ethnic Inequality * 5 Poverty * Drugs * 6 Homicide * 7 An Aging Population * 8 Health * 9 Reflections on Social Problems
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