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  • Agenda-Setting

    Series series Communication Concepts
    What is the biggest social problem in the news today? Who makes issues newsworthy and important? Why do some issues receive more attention than others? Social issues that are widely recognized in the media′s agenda often demand attention on the public agenda and in turn, slide up the policy agenda, creating policy changes. James W. Dearing and Everett M. Rogers′s research on social issues that hit ... Leer más

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  • Great American City

    Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

    This "landmark work in urban sociology" examines the influence of neighborhoods on social phenomena and in our lives (Claude Fischer, City & Community).For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories ... Leer más

    $215 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Canada’s Residential Schools: The Legacy

    The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 5

    Series Libro 85 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and their home communities.For children, life in these schools was lonely and alien. Discipline was harsh, ... Leer más

    $457 MXN

  • Stuck in Place

    Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality

    In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement's successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened to African American communities over the last several decades. In Stuck in Place, Sharkey describes how ... Leer más

    $226 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition

    Issues and Perspectives

    Edición de Anne Westhues, Brian Wharf ...
    Social policy shapes the daily lives of every Canadian citizen and should reflect the beliefs of a majority of Canadians on just approaches to the promotion of health, safety, and well-being. Too often, those on the front lines—social workers, nurses, and teachers—observe that policies do not work well for the most vulnerable groups in society. In the first part of this new edition of Canadian ... Leer más

    $755 MXN

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

    Edición de David Brady, Linda M. Burton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for everything from health and well-being to identity and behavior. Nevertheless, the study of poverty has remained disconnected across disciplines. The ... Leer más

    $851 MXN

  • Imprisoning Communities

    How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse

    de Todd R Clear ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities. In the most impoverished places, as much as 20% of the adult men are locked up on any given day, ... Leer más

    $588 MXN

  • Neighborhoods and Crime

    The Dimensions of Effective Community Control

    This book is an excellent resource in examining the influence that community control can have on crime. ... Leer más

    $829 MXN

  • Crime and the Economy

    Series series Compact Criminology
    In this unique and timely book, two of the world′s leading criminologists explore the connections between crime and economic conditions. The authors skilfully draw on influential criminological theories to formulate an original "institutional" perspective. This perspective sheds light on the complex ways in which levels and forms of crime reflect the structure and functioning of the economy in ... Leer más

    $1,175 MXN

  • Multiculturalism and Diversity

    A Social Psychological Perspective

    de Bernice Lott ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Issues
    Multiculturalism and Diversity focuses on the ways in which history and identity inform each other, and examines the politics of culture as well as the politics of cultural identities within the U.S.Illustrates the basic proposition that each of us is a unique multicultural human being and that culture affects individual self-definition, experience, behavior, and social interactionMoves from early ... Leer más

    $648 MXN

  • Closing the Opportunity Gap

    What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance

    While the achievement gap has dominated policy discussions over the past two decades, relatively little attention has been paid to a gap even more at odds with American ideals: the opportunity gap. Opportunity and achievement, while inextricably connected, are very different goals. Every American will not go to college, but every American should be given a fair chance to be prepared for college. ... Leer más

    $604 MXN

  • When Protest Makes Policy

    How Social Movements Represent Disadvantaged Groups

    de Laurel Weldon ...
    Series series The Cawp Series In Gender And American Politics
    "A must-read for scholars across a broad sweep of disciplines. Laurel Weldon weaves together skillfully the theoretical strands of gender equality policy, intersectionality, social movements, and representation in a multimethod/level comparative study that unequivocally places women's movements at the center of our understanding of democracy and social change."---Amy G. Mazur, Washington State ... Leer más

    $371 MXN