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Social Problems: Society In Crisis, Daniel Curran, Claire Renzetti

Daniel J. Curran

Building on the success of previous editions, Curran and Renzetti have meticulously revised Social Problems, updating and expanding existing coverage to ensure it is as up-to-date as possible. This edition includes new and updated coverage of such issues as welfare reform and welfare-to-work programs, terrorism, crime control policies (including the “three strikes” policy) gay marriages and the law, the abortion controversy, and health insurance.

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Contemporary Societies: Problems And Prospects, Daniel Curran, Claire Renzetti

Daniel J. Curran

In editing this book, one of our primary concerns was to assist students in developing a structural analysis of the serious social problems they repeatedly hear about on television, in political campaigns, and in newspapers, and more importantly, that some may experience in their everyday lives. We wanted to help them see the personal as political, so that they could critically evaluate the structural causes of these problems and, in turn, begin to conceive of structural or collective actions to solve them. Consequently, readers will find in the chapter introductions in this book and in the readings themselves a strong …