Social Problems in a Diverse Society (Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific) - Hardcover

Diana Kendall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 020519835X ISBN 13: 9780205198351

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

Synopsis

Emphasizing the centrality of race, class, and gender in understanding people's life experiences and social problems in the US and other nations, this college-level text addresses contentious issues with reason and perspective. Topics covered in the volume's 18 chapters include wealth and poverty; t

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Key Benefit: Through an engaging writing style, the author invites readers to analyze how social policies reflect the various interests and values of the parties involved and how social problems and policies affect their daily lives. Key Topics: This cutting edge work focuses on the centrality of race, class, and gender in understanding people's life experiences and social problems in the U.S. and other nations. It includes a humanist and feminist perspective as it strives to show how people - especially people of color and white women - are shown not merely as "victims" of social problems, but also as individuals seeking to bring about change in families, schools, workplaces, and the larger society. Market: Sociologists and family therapists.

About the Author:

Diana Kendall received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was invited to membership in Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

 

Her areas of specialization and primary research interests are sociological theory, race/class/gender studies, and the sociology of medicine. Her articles and presented papers primarily focus on the scholarship of teaching and on an examination of U.S. women of the upper classes across racial and ethnic groups.

 

In addition to Social Problems in a Diverse Society, she is the author of The Power of Good Deeds: Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) andFraming Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America(Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

 

Diana Kendall is currently Professor of Sociology at Baylor University, where she has taught a variety of courses, including Introduction to Sociology, Sociological Theory (undergraduate and graduate), Sociology of Medicine, and Race, Class, and Gender. Previously, she enjoyed many years of teaching sociology and serving as chair of the Social and Behavioral Science Division at Austin Community College. Professor Kendall is actively involved in national and regional sociological associations, including the American Sociological Association, Sociologists for Women in Society, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Southern Sociological Society, and the Southwestern Sociological Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 020519835X
• ISBN 13: 9780205198351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 477