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| Toward an Understanding of Current Social Problems | |
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| A Conceptual Tool Kit | |
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| Thinking About Social Problems | |
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| The Sociological Imagination | |
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| Why history is necessary to understand experience; how social problems (issues) differ from individual troubles | |
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| Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection | |
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| How everyone's life experience exists within overlapping structures of race, gender and class | |
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| The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are | |
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| How science constructs problems and solutions | |
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| Why I Love Trash | |
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| How the media shapes our common sense understandings of difference and deviance | |
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| The Reproduction of Inequality: Interactionist Analysis | |
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| How our uncritical choices and behavior remake inequality every day | |
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| Social Problems and Inequality | |
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| Power, Capitalism and Globalization | |
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| One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism | |
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| How the forces of global capitalism contribute to worldwide inequality | |
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| Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption | |
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| How U.S. consumerism is affecting other cultures around the world | |
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| Corporate Welfare | |
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| How the U.S. government spends more money on aid to wealthy corporations than on aid to the nation's poor | |
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| The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery | |
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| How contemporary forms of slavery are created and maintained within the global economy | |
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| Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women in the Global Economy, Grace Chang How immigration laws lead to the economic exploitation women | |
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| Poverty | |
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| A World of Poverty | |
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| Why wealthy corporation share responsibility for the conditions of impoverished countries | |
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| Ghetto-Related Behavior and the Structure of Opportunity | |
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| How poverty and racism limit the choices available to individuals in poor neighborhoods | |
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| The Enemy Within | |
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| Why women on welfare have become the scapegoat for a variety of social problems | |
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| Without a Safety Net | |
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| What happens to former welfare recipients when the jobs are gone | |
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| Making Ends Meet on a Welfare Check | |
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| An examination of the many difficulties facing families on welfare | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| American Diversity and the 2000 Census | |
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| How race has been constructed through 200 years of governmental census taking | |
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| Exploring Asian Americans: The Myth of the 'Model Minority' and the Reality of Their Lives | |
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| How racial stereotypes obscure ethnic differences and real social problems | |
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| The Black-White Test Score Gap | |
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| How biased edicational tests hinder the success of non-whites | |
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| The Place of Women Inside Organized Racism | |
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| How traditional gender roles support organized racist groups | |
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| Beyond Black and White: Ethnoviolence Between Oppressed Groups | |
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| How intercultural violence works to maintain social boundaries, group privileges, and racial hierarchies | |
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| Gender and Sexuality | |
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| Supremacy Crimes, Gloria Steinem Serious consequences of media blindness to the gender of the killers at Columbine High School | |
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| Why Gender Matters: Women, Militarism, and Violence | |
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| Why attention to women is necessary to curb support for terrorism and to secure peace | |
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| Domestic Violence Among the Navajo: A Legacy of Colonization | |
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