Description
Book SynopsisGoldberg uses a multi-media approach to critically examine the most significant and volatile issues of our times: the environmental crisis, upheavals in the developing world, health, terrorism, and technology. The book is unique in its in-depth coverage of these pressing social concerns and its use of extensive media resources through a companion website. An introductory section reviews basic sociological concepts and theories, including the sociological imagination and class, gender, and race stratification all of which are revisited in each chapter. The book helps students appreciate the magnitude of the problems of the twenty-first century as they develop the intellectual tools to understand them sociologically and personally.Features of the text: "
Trade Review"This is a breakthrough book in its use of media to explore some of the most pressing social problems of our time. It also provides a clear, engaging introduction to fundamental sociological concepts. Both students and instructors will be pleased with it.”
—Dennis Gilbert, Hamilton College
Table of ContentsPart 1 UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMS AS SOCIAL CRISES; Chapter 1 A Sociological Look at Social Crises; Chapter 2 What Makes Us Unequal?; Part 2 TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CRISES; Chapter 3 Crisis in Our Environment; Chapter 4 Crisis in a Fragile World; Chapter 5 The Crisis in Health and Health Care; Chapter 6 Terrorism and Its Aftermath; Chapter 7 Privacy and Identity in an Age of Crisis;
