social problems

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+title: "Social Problems: Continuity and Change"
+authors:
+  - "Steven E. Barkan"
+external_url: "https://2012books.lardbucket.org/pdfs/a-primer-on-social-problems.pdf"
+source_url: "https://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/barkansoc-social-problems-continuity-and-change-1-0"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/141mdFi5KzbFDfWRFlLbp2bofidM57Xlg/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: society
+tags:
+  - present
+  - america
+year: 2014
+olid: OL47023231M
+publisher: "Flat World"
+address: "Irvington, NY"
+pages: 853
+---
+
+> poverty and hunger, racism and sexism, drug use and violence, and climate change, to name just a few:
+Why do these problems exist? What are their effects? What can be done about them?
+
+Now over a decade old and mostly from the U.S. perspective, the text is still an adequate introduction to various problems in modern society and the ways that sociologists tend to think about them.