Social Problems: A Service Learning Approach

This book uses a case-study approach integrated into a comprehensive introduction that helps students understand how they can address social problems in their communities by applying basic theories and concepts. Chapters include: Do We Make the World or Does the World Make Us? Concepts and Theories; Who Has, Who Doesn't? Looking for the Answers to Poverty, Inequality, and Homelessness; On the Job: Work, Workers, and the Changing Nature of Labor; Finding Ourselves: Race Gender, Sexuality, Multiculturalism, and Identity; Be It Ever So Humble: Changing Families in a Changing World; Who Breathes Easy? Protecting and Designing Our Environments; Why Can't Johnny Read? Education in Crisis; What Price Justice? Deviance, Crime, and Building Community; An Apple A Day? Health and Health Care for All; and The Whole Wide World Around: Globalization and Its Discontents.