SAGE Readings for Social Problems

Benjamin Drury

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781071818404
• eBook ISBN: 9781071841617
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

SAGE Readings for Social Problems is a convenient and economical option for instructors who want to introduce students to scholarly literature in their social problems courses. It contains 16 short readings on topics covered in typical courses, including economic inequality, race, gender, crime, substance abuse, education, health/medicine, the environment, family, and the social construction of social problems. The articles in this collection were all chosen because they are accessible to undergraduate, avoid complicated statistical analysis, and demonstrate the range of methodological approaches to studying social problems.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Reading 1 Race, Class, and the Framing of Drug Epidemics*
• Reading 2 “Some Viewers May Find the Following Images Disturbing”* Visual Representations of Refugee Deaths at Border Crossings
• Reading 3 Racial Capitalism A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Inequities in the United States*
• Reading 4 “It’s Hard to Be Around Here” Criminalization of Daily Routines for Youth in Baltimore*
• Reading 5 Competing Technologies of Embodiment Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Dependency in Vietnam’s Contemporary Sex Industry*
• Reading 6 Who Are the “Illegals”? The Social Construction of Illegality in the United States*
• Reading 7 Racing to Serve or Race-ing for Money? Hispanic-Serving Institutions and the Colorblind Allocation of Racialized Federal Funding*
• Reading 8 Does Violent Protest Backfire? Testing a Theory of Public Reactions to Activist Violence*
• Reading 9 Own Gender, Sibling’s Gender, Parent’s Gender The Division of Elderly Parent Care Among Adult Children*
• Reading 10 The Network Structure of Police Misconduct*
• Reading 11 “Once Again, a Meth Lab Exploded and Somebody Died” Narratives of Volatility and Risk in the Rural Drug War*
• Reading 12 Who’s the Boss? Explaining Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurial Teams*
• Reading 13 Digital Dimension of Cultural Capital The (In)Visible Advantages for Students Who Exhibit Computer Skills*
• Reading 14 Sociology Engaged in Social Justice*
• Reading 15 Environmental Contaminants and Reproductive Bodies Provider Perspectives on Risk, Gender, and Responsibility*
• Reading 16 Food Insecurity in Rural America*