Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up Successful Social Movements

Name: Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up Successful Social Movements
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ISBN: 9780205468843

ISBN-10: 0205468845

ISBN-13: 9780205468843

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kenneth Stewart, D. Eitzen

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Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up: Successful Social Movements D. Stanley Eitzen Kenneth Stewart ISBN: 0-205-46884-5 Composed of 25 readings, this brief reader focuses on how solutions to social problems have emerged from people who have joined together. The authors examine progressive social movements that have sought to redress social problems such as barriers to class, race, and gender equality; democratic practices; economic advancement; and social justice. The text is divided into six chapters: Chapter 1 incorporates articles on the importance of social movements. Chapter 2 looks at social movements that have promoted race, class, and gender…

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List price: $53.32
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 12/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Kenneth Stewart is Professor Emeritus of Zoology at the University of Manitoba, and a nationally recognized expert on freshwater fish. He is Scientific Advisor to the non-profit foundation Fish Futures Inc., and a recipient of a National Recreation Fishing Award.



Preface



Social Movements and Democracy



How Social Movements Matter



The Problem is Civil Obedience Additional Readings



Social Movements Advancing Toward Equality Taylor Branch


The Sit-In Movement Charles Wilson, Rosa Parkss Gift to the Disabled Tina Gianoulis, Womens Liberation Movement Wikipedia


Gay Rights Living Wage Resource Center


The Living Wage Movement Additional Readings



Social Movements Promoting Democracy Wikipedia


Dorr Rebellion



How Women Won the Vote



Mississippi and Freedom Summer



The Progressive Movement



Port Huron Statement Additional Readings



Social Movements That Promoted Corporate Social Responsibility



Coke: The New Nike



Rights Fight: Townships in Rural Pennsylvania Take on Factory Farmsand Corporate Rights



Flame-Broiled Shark [Acorn taking on the predatory lending practices of Household Finance]



Tomato Pickers Win Big at Taco Bell



Logging On With a New Campaign: Staffers Use Tactics Learned with Candidates to Pressure Wal-Mart Additional Readings



The Next Generation: Social Movements Promoting Social Justice in a Globalizing World



The Rise of Food Democracy



Not a Drop to Drink [Bolivians protest successfully against the World Banks privatization of their water supply]



South Fights Back on Services at WTO [Leaders of relatively powerless nations take on the policies of the World Trade Organization]



How to End Poverty: Making Poverty History and the History of Poverty [The ideology that inflames bottom up social movements in the globalizing world] Additional Readings



Involvement in Social Movements: The Importance of Citizen Activism



Cindy Sheehan and the Peace Movement Yale Center for the Study of Globalization


Jose Bove and the Global Peasant Movement Charles Bowden



Keeper of the Fire [Student activism against sweatshop labor] Additional Readings