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1	Social problems more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist The best-selling social problems text. With a critical, conflict perspective, this text looks at the social structures and inequalities that contribute to social problems. Taking a conflict approach, Eitzen and Baca Zinn focus on the underlying features of the social world in an effort to help students to understand today's social problems. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.68! \| first editions \| SVS
2	In Conflict & Order: Understanding Society more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist This introductory text, written from a conflict perspective, emphasizes four themes: diversity, the struggle to achieve social justice, economic and global transformations in the U.S., and a global perspective. In Conflict and Order studies the forces that lead to both stability and change in society. As they examine the standard topics in an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Diversity in Families more books like this by Maxine Baca Zinn add to wishlist This highly regarded text, written by an award-winning author team, treats family diversity as the norm , while highlighting how race, class, gender, and sexuality produce varieties of familial relationships. Diversity in Families looks at families not as "building blocks of societies" but rather, as products of social forces within society. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen, Maxine Baca Zinn add to wishlist This popular and thought-provoking reader collects 42 interesting and highly relevant articles that explore the process of globalization and how it shapes societies and groups. Particular focus is placed on the United States, its role in the globalization process, and whether the effects of globalization can be viewed as beneficial or harmful to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.50! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sociology of North American Sport more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist The book that set the standard for sports textbooks has been extensively revised and updated for its new eighth edition. Among the many new topical additions are elite child athletics, gambling in college sports, performance enhancement drugs, sport and nationalism after 9/11, the Beijing Olympics, Nike and other corporations, the power of media ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $76.59! \| SVS
6	Experiencing Poverty: Voices from the Bottom more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen, Kelly Eitzen Smith add to wishlist This collection of readings provides the voice, the presence, and the perspective of the poor who live on the margins and are generally invisible to the middle and upper classes. The goals of this reader are twofold: (1) to bring the realities of the lives of the impoverished as close to the reader as possible (2) to get the reader to listen ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
7	Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist Expanded and updated, with photos throughout, this second edition explains America's love of sport just as it reveals sport's darker side - the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political manoeuvering, and media grandstanding. An entire new chapter explores the myth that sport is "played on a level playing field", emphasizing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Sport in Contemporary Society: An Anthology more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist Sports buffs know all about famous players and coaches and can recite statistics in endless detail. But do fans know how sport is linked to other institutions of society? Do they understand the role of sport in socialising youngsters in both positive and negative ways? Do they know that racism continues in sport? What about the ways in which sport ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.00! \| SVS
9	Solutions to Social Problems from the Bottom Up: Successful Social Movements more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen, Kenneth Stewart add to wishlist This brief reader examines a number of organized movements that have successfully brought about reform and change "from the bottom up." see all copies from $13.70! new only from $22.72! \| first editions
10	Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from Other Societies more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist Solutions to Social Problems is the only reader on the market to look at how other countries solve their social problems in order to help the U.S. solve its own. These 35 interesting, and insightful articles are organized around 13 problem areas, such as poverty and health care. Each section is introduced with a US comparison, to give the reader ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| first editions
11 view cover	Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from State and Local Government more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen, George H Sage add to wishlist This text examines specific cases where states and cities are ahead of the federal government in providing solutions to social problems. States and cities are sometimes ahead of the federal government in providing solutions to social problems. The federal bureaucracy often prefers no change to change. Congress is sometimes paralyzed by party and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.32! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Solutions to Social Problems: From the Top Down: The Role of Government more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen, George Harvey Sage add to wishlist This text/reader focuses on laws and government solutions ("top-down" solutions) in the U.S that have been effective in solving problems. The readings explore specific examples of progressive legislation and social policies, and also examines historical trends and future prospects. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions
13 view cover	Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist Explains America's love of sport just as it reveals sport's darker side - the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, and media grandstanding. Visit our website for sample chapters! see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.75! \| first editions \| SVS
14	The Reshaping of America: Social Consequences of the Changing Economy more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen, Maxine Baca Zinn add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.71! \| first editions
15 view cover	Diversity in Families more books like this by Maxine Baca-Zinn, Maxine Baca Zinn, D. Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist This highly regarded book treats diversity as the norm in family life, exploring the many varieties of familiar relationships in society today. This exploration of the socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic diversities in families views the family on both the macro and micro levels, examining the influence of larger social trends on personal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $55.00!
16 view cover	Fair and Foul: The Dark Side of American Sport more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen, Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist This book moves beyond the myths and media hype to take a closer look at America's love of sport and how it so often comes in conflict with our most basic values. With reverence yet a sharp eye for the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, and media grandstanding, Eitzen portrays famous and lesser known ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95!
17 view cover	Inequality: Social Class and Its Consequences more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen (Editor), Janis E Johnston (Editor) add to wishlist This book offers an up-to-date portrait of the realities of social class and its consequences in the United States today, focusing on the increasing inequality gap; the shrinking middle class; the myth and realities of social mobility; the consequences of class for work, health care, education, the justice system, war, and the environment; and ... see all copies from $27.90! new only from $43.99!
18 view cover	Sports in Contemporary Society: An Anthology more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist This new printing of Sport in Contemporary Society includes a new supplement on the facts, opinions, and scandals surrounding steroids in professional and amateur sports. Included is an informative government report that accessibly lays out the facts for students on increased use of steroids and the medical and performance effects on athletes. ... see all copies from $2.15! new only from $9.50!
19 view cover	Social Problems more books like this by Eitzen D Stanley, Maxine Baca Zinn, Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist Adopting a sociological approach to social problems, this work provides a framework from which to analyze and understand society and the problems found therein. Among the issues tackled in the book are national security, especially domestic terrorism, new immigration, the elderly, class, and race. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $47.00!
20 view cover	Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from Other Societies more books like this by Stanley D Eitzen, Craig S Leedham (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
21 view cover	Social Problems with Research Navigator more books like this by D. Stanley Eitzen, Maxine Baca Zinn add to wishlist This best-selling social problems text, with a critical, conflict perspective, has been combined with a convenient new source of outside reading-Research Navigator. With your free online subscription to Research Navigator, you can access thousands of current, relevant full-text articles from leading journals, popular magazines, and The New York ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $63.09! \| first editions
22 view cover	Crime in the Streets and Crime in the Suites: Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice more books like this by Doug A Timmer, D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist This comprehensive collection focuses on a definition of crime, different types of crime, criminal justice, law and policing and courts and corrective sentencing. Each section includes a general introduction to the issue and two contrasting readings which represent each side of the argument. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $70.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Elite Deviance more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen, David R Simon add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| SVS
24 view cover	Paths to Homelessness: Extreme Poverty and the Urban Housing Crisis more books like this by Doug A Timmer, Kathryn D Talley, D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist This book is the first to combine a cogent explanation of the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families on the streets, in soup lines, and in shelters. The human side of the story, told from ethnographies conducted in three diverse citiesChicago, Denver, and Tampashows that there is no culture of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $51.39! \| first editions
25	In Conflict & Order: Understanding Society more books like this by Stanley Eitzen, D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!

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