Contemporary Social Problems

by Vincent N. Parrillo, John Stimson, Ardyth Stimson

This introductory text is theoretically-balanced, incorporating the three major theoretical functionalist, conflict, and interactionist. The text focuses on the individual, with a chapter on "The Individual in a Complex Alienation, Anomie and Postmodernism". Every chapter includes alternative scenarios, with a pessimistic scenario and an optimistic scenario, to show students how action taken today can affect the future. Topics new to the third edition include gun control, AIDS, abortion, domestic, school and street violence, and reactions to immigrants and illegal aliens. Every chapter includes an international section on how other societies face similar social problems.

Genres: Sociology

614 pages, Hardcover

First published March 28, 1985

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[Montana-IFC · Rating 5 out of 5]

School curriculum challenge. Retained, 1995.