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Taking Sides : Clashing Views On Controversial Social Issues

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

    • Taking Sides. Clashing Views On Social Issues
    • Clashing Views On Controversial Social Issues
  • Attribution

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

    Book, 13th ed, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005
  • Availability

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      (LOWER LEVEL)  HN59.2 .T35 2005         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)
  • Author

  • 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?
    • Do the new sex roles burden women more than men?
    • Are communication problems between men and women largely due to radically different conversation styles?
    • Should same-sex marriages be legally recognized?
    • Is the decline of the traditional family a national crisis?
    • Is increasing economic inequality a serious problem?
    • Is the underclass the major threat to American ideals?
    • Has affirmative action outlived its usefulness?
    • Is government dominated by big business?
    • Should government intervene in a capitalist economy?
    • Has welfare reform benefited the poor?
    • Is competition 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?
    • Does the threat of terrorism warrant curtailment of civil liberties?
    • Is mankind dangerously harming the environment?
    • Is globalization good for mankind?
  • ISBN

    • 0072968753
    • 9780072968750
  • Open Library ID

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