ABSTRACT

Goldberg 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: "

part I|48 pages

Understanding Social Problems as Social Crises

chapter Chapter 1|18 pages

A Sociological Look at Social Crises

chapter Chapter 2|28 pages

What Makes Us Unequal?

part II|156 pages

Twenty-First-Century Crises

chapter Chapter 3|27 pages

Crisis in Our Environment

Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

chapter Chapter 4|31 pages

Crisis in a Fragile World

Child Soldiers, Human Trafficking, and Genocide

chapter Chapter 5|36 pages

The Crisis in Health and Health Care

Obesity, HIV/AIDS, and Health-Care Reform

chapter Chapter 6|27 pages

Terrorism and Its Aftermath

chapter Chapter 7|25 pages

Privacy and Identity in an Age of Crisis

The Role of Technology in Shaping the Twenty-First Century

chapter |8 pages

Epilogue: Crises in Perspective

Agency and Action