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Taking Sides : Clashing Views On Controversial Social Issues

  • Taking Sides : Clashing Views On Controversial Social  Issues
  • Title

    • Clashing Views On Controversial Social Issues
  • Attribution

    edited, selected, and with introductions by Kurt Finsterbusch and George McKenna
  • Publication Details

    Book, 10th ed, Dushkin Pub. Group/Brown & Benchmark, 1999
  • Availability

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      (LOWER LEVEL)  HN59.2 .T35 1999         AVAILABLE
      (LOWER LEVEL)  HN59.2 .T35 1999     c.2   AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to current controversies in sociology and social problems. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
  • Authors

  • Subject

  • Contents

    • 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?
    • Is feminism a harmful ideology?
    • Are communication problems between men and women largely due to radically different conversation styles?
    • Should society be more accepting of homosexuality?
    • Is the decline of the traditional family a national crisis? - - Is increasing economic inequality a serious problem?
    • Are the poor largely responsible for their poverty?
    • Has affirmative action outlived its usefulness?
    • Is government dominated by big business?
    • Should government intervene in a capitalist economy?
    • Will welfare reform benefit the poor?
    • Are vouchers the solution to the ills of public education?
    • Should doctor-assisted suicide be legalized for the terminally ill?
    • Is street crime more harmful than white-collar crime?
    • Should drug use be decriminalized?
    • Is incapacitation the answer to the crime problem?
    • Does population growth threaten humanity?
    • Are standards of living in the United States improving?
  • ISBN

    • 0697391132
    • 9780697391131
  • Open Library ID

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