Social Issues

A social issue is a problem that influences a considerable number of the individuals within a society. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's social issue is the source of a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as a morally just personal life or societal order.

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New Releases Tagged "Social Issues"

The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Against Convenience: Embracing Friction in an Age of Endless Ease
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1)
The Pariah (Covenant of Steel, #1)
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
The Bone Orchard
The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)
The Girls We Sent Away
Poverty, by America
The Last Carolina Girl
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Perfectly Nice Neighbors
The New People
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories
Revenge Plot
The Hate U Give
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Between the World and Me
Just Mercy
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
So You Want to Talk About Race
How to Be an Antiracist
To Kill a Mockingbird
We Should All Be Feminists
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Poverty, by America
The Handmaid's Tale

“ It is in the linkage between freedom of movement and equality of opportunity that the analogy with feudalism cuts most deeply. Under feudalism, there was no commitment to equal opportunity. The social circumstances of one’s birth largely determined one’s opportunities, and restrictions on freedom of movement were an essential element in maintaining the limitations on the opportunities of those with talent and motivation but the wrong class background. (Of course, gender was another pervasive con ...more ”
― Joseph H. Carens, The Ethics of Immigration

Kristian Ventura
“ While guaranteed basic needs in the modern age sound extreme, requiring every person to spend the majority of their lives paying for the ability to safely exist is the actual extreme. ”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human

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This is a new book club aimed at educating ourselves on various social issues through fiction an…more
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Would love to focus on revolutionary authors and historians, social justice movements, politics …more
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Do Good Book Club Do Good Book Club is a donation based book club centered around building awareness of social iss…more
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Progressive Book Club 716 We are a group of bookworms and aspiring activists. Open discussions based on relevant readings …more
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