TY  - SER
TI  - Taking Sides
SN  - 2832-7772
AV  - HN59.2 .T35 2010
U1  - 361 23
PY  - 2010///-
CY  - Dubuque, IA
PB  - McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Periodicals
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - United States
KW  - Problèmes sociaux
KW  - Périodiques
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social policy
KW  - 1980-2020
KW  - 1980-1993
KW  - 1993-
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Politique sociale
KW  - 1981-1993
N1  - Issues for 2007-2013 McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series; 2014- McGraw-Hill Create; Earlier title cataloged as monographs
N2  - This debate-style reader introduces students to controversies in sociology, presenting the arguments of leading social scientists and social commentators. The 15th edition includes CULTURE AND VALUES (Is America in Moral Decline? Does the News Media Have a Liberal Bias? Is Third World Immigration a Threat to America's Way of Life?) SEX ROLES, GENDER AND THE FAMILY (Is the Decline of the Traditional Family a National Crisis? Should Mothers Stay Home with Their Children? Should Same-Sex Marriages Be Legally Recognized?) STRATIFICATION AND INEQUALITY (Is Increasing Economic Inequality a Serious Problem? Is the Underclass the Major Threat to American Ideals? Has Affirmative Action Outlived Its Usefulness? Are Boys and Men Disadvantaged Relative to Girls and Women?) POLITICAL ECONOMY AND INSTITUTIONS (Is Government Dominated by Big Business? Should Government Intervene in a Capitalist Economy? Has Welfare Reform Benefited the Poor? Is Competition the Reform That Will Fix Education? Should Biotechnology Be Used to Alter and Enhance Humans?) CRIME AND SOCIAL CONTROL (Is Street Crime More Harmful Than White-Collar Crime? Should Drug Use Be Decriminalized? Does the Threat of Terrorism Warrant Curtailment of Civil Liberties?) THE FUTURE: POPULATION/ENVIRONMENT/SOCIETY (Is Mankind Dangerously Harming the Environment? Is Globalization Good for Mankind?)
ER  -