Social Problems

Corey Dolgon, is a bright young scholar who is currently a Professor of Sociology and Director of Community-based Learning at Stonehill College, in Massachusetts. In addition, he is a Visiting Faculty at the Community Works Service-Learning Institute, in Los Angeles. His background includes a B.S. from Boston University, an M.A. from Baylor University and a Ph.D. from University of Michigan. He specializes in Urban Studies, Social Movements, Cultural and Marxist Studies, Community-based Research, and Applied Sociology. A highly-regarded teacher who regularly gets an "A" ratings from students, he is also widely published in magazines and scholarly journals. He has one book published with the NYU Press, The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Americäs Paradise, which has won two Book of the Year awards - one from the Association for Humanist Sociology and the other from the American Sociological Association's Marxist Section

In this unique new text, Corey Dolgon integrates an innovative case study approach into a comprehensive introduction that helps students understand how they can address social problems in their communities by applying basic theories and concepts. He stresses how a sociological imagination not only informs how students understand the root causes of social ills but also offers powerful tools for engaging in solutions.

Introduction. What are Social Problems and What Do Sociologists Do About Them?1. Do We Make the World or Does the World Make Us? Concepts and Theories2. Who Has, Who Hasn't? Looking for Answers to Poverty, Inequality, and Homelessness3. On the Job: Work, Workers and the Changing Nature of Labor4. What Price Justice? Deviance, Crime and Building Community5. Be it Ever So Humble: Changing Families in a Changing World6. Who Breathes Easy? Protecting and Designing Our Environments7. Why Can't Johnny Read? Education in Crisis8. Finding Ourselves: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Multiculturalism, and Identity9. An Apple a Day? Health and Healthcare for All10. The Whole Wide World Around: Globalization and Its Discontents