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Framing 21st Century Social Issues


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The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60 page or shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html

For instructors teaching a wide range of courses in the social sciences, the Routledge Social Issues Collection now offers the best of both worlds: originally written short texts that provide "overviews" to important social issues as well as teachable excerpts from larger works previously published by Routledge and other presses.

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Debating the Drug War Race, Politics, and the Media

Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and the Media

1st Edition

By Michael Rosino
March 17, 2021

Since President Nixon coined the phrase, the "War on Drugs" has presented an important change in how people view and discuss criminal justice practices and drug laws. The term evokes images of militarization, punishment, and violence, as well as combat and the potential for victory. It is no ...

Social Problems A Human Rights Perspective

Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective

2nd Edition

By Eric Bonds
March 15, 2021

Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective, Second Edition evaluates U.S. society through an international human rights framework. The book provides a critical discussion about what rights mean, along with a sociological exploration of power and inequality to explain why human rights are...

Myth and Reality in the U.S. Immigration Debate

Myth and Reality in the U.S. Immigration Debate

1st Edition

By Greg Prieto
September 18, 2020

"What part of illegal don’t you understand?" This oft-repeated slogan from immigration restrictionists illustrates the contentious quality of the immigration reform debate in the United States: a debate that has raged on unresolved since at least 1986 when our immigration system was last reformed. ...

Body Problems Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society

Body Problems: Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society

2nd Edition

By Ben Agger
August 13, 2019

Body Problems addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food culture. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses a growing, fundamental dilemma that we have ample access to ...

Changing Times for Black Professionals

Changing Times for Black Professionals

1st Edition

By Adia Harvey Wingfield
December 17, 2010

This book is a study of the challenges, issues, and obstacles facing black professional workers in the United States. Though they have always been a part of the U.S. labor force, black professionals have often been overlooked in media, research, and public opinion. Ironically, however, their ...

Trans* Lives in the United States Challenges of Transition and Beyond

Trans* Lives in the United States: Challenges of Transition and Beyond

1st Edition

By Andrew Cutler Seeber
September 26, 2017

Being and becoming trans* is a complex and varied experience whether an individual is living openly as trans* or not. Few published studies in either the academic or popular press illuminate the challenges of living as a trans* person after medical and social transition are complete. Trans* Lives ...

How Ethical Systems Change: Abortion and Neonatal Care

How Ethical Systems Change: Abortion and Neonatal Care

1st Edition

By Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Elyshia Aseltine
November 30, 2011

Roe v. Wade came like a bolt from the blue, but support had been building for years. For many, the idea that life in the womb was not fully protected under the Constitution was simply not acceptable. Political campaigns were organized and protests launched, including the bombing of clinics and the ...

How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying

How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying

1st Edition

By Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Elyshia Aseltine
November 30, 2011

Medical advances prolong life. They also sometimes prolong suffering. Should we protect life or alleviate suffering? This dilemma formed the foundation for a powerful right-to-die movement and a counterbalancing concern over an emerging culture of death. What are the qualities of a life worth ...

Unequal Prospects Is Working Longer the Answer?

Unequal Prospects: Is Working Longer the Answer?

1st Edition

By Tay McNamara, John Williamson
April 11, 2013

In light of the recent financial crisis and changing economic landscape, McNamara and Williamson present and analyze the possibility of working longer. Including a range of potential policies (e.g., further increasing the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits, allocating ...

Sex, Drugs, and Death Addressing Youth Problems in American Society

Sex, Drugs, and Death: Addressing Youth Problems in American Society

1st Edition

By Tammy L. Anderson
December 26, 2010

Sex, Drugs, and Death: Addressing Youth Problems in American Society explores how youth lifestyles, identity pursuits, behaviors and activities produce a wide range of social problems in contemporary society. The book focuses on the interconnections between three of the most significant youth ...

Empire Versus Democracy The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power

Empire Versus Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power

1st Edition

By Carl Boggs
March 03, 2011

In Empire Versus Democracy, Carl Boggs traces the authoritarian trajectory of American politics since World War II, with emphasis on the growing concentration of corporate and military power that has accompanied the United States assumption of leading superpower on the world scene. The rise of the ...

DIY: The Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century

DIY: The Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century

1st Edition

By Kevin Wehr
May 07, 2012

From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas’s colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx’s concepts of alienation ...

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