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Global Problems, Global Solutions
Prospects for a Better World
Second Edition
- JoAnn Chirico - The Pennsylvania State University, University College
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Social Problems
Social Problems
May 2024 | 768 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Global Problems, Global Solutions takes a different approach to social problems, examining them from a global perspective. Its starting point is the United Nations's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which recognizes a single global system and the interdependence of problems across national borders. Using this as a framework, the Second Edition explores three broad themes--nourishing human capital, restoring civility, and sustaining natural and manufactured environments--as it examines the causes and consequences of a range of problems related to economic inequality, discrimination and persecution, war and violence, food production, population flows, health and longevity, the environment, politics and government, and other factors.
1: Private Troubles and Social Problems: Developing a Sociological Imagination
PART I: NOURISHING HUMAN CAPITAL
2: Socioeconomic Fault Lines: Inequality, Poverty, and Development
3: Starving in the Shadow of Plenty
4: Optimizing Human Capital: Good Health
5: Expanding Horizons Through Lifelong Learning
PART II: RESTORING CIVILITY TO SOCIAL LIFE
6: From Difference to Discrimination: Fault Lines of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
7: You Can’t Empower Us With Chickens: Gender Through the Lifespan
8: When Life Becomes a Commodity: Human and Wildlife Trafficking
9: Transnational Property Crimes
10: The Challenge of Political Violence
PART III: SUSTAINING NATURAL AND MANUFACTURED ENVIRONMENTS
11: Global Flows of Refugees
12: Destruction and Depletion of the Natural Environment
13: Climate Change and Global Warming
14: Urbanization: The Lure of the Cities
15: A World Gone Awry? The State of Governance
Supplements
"This is a very well-written book that's excellent for the Social Problems course."
Athens State University
