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Product Details

  • Paperback: 300 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 2 edition (April 27, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393918637
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393918632
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.6 x 8.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsInnovative approach to teaching social problems
By Shellayla on October 27, 2009
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I also feel prompted to write this because of the bad one-star review that has nothing to do with Joel Best's book. This book updates Lowney's innovative constructionist approach to teaching Social Problems. It provides an alternative to the more common way of teaching social problems, which can be quite a drudge through a laundry list of society's problems. I also appreciate that it is a highly readable book, not a textbook. It reads well and is not trying to incorporate every bell and whistle to compete in the tough textbook marketplace but instead stands out because of Best's conceptual vision. This also puts it at a great price for students. The accompanying materials for instructors are also really helpful and show Best's collaboration with other sociology profs who were looking for another way to approach the Social Problems class.
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2.0 out of 5 starsWould not go on my leisurely reading list
By Lauren Reaney on March 9, 2016
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I had to order this for class, but at least it wasn't as expensive as many other textbooks. The material seems vague without much to back up why something is the way it is, according to Joel Best. The examples of cases in the book are very elementary. Besides terminology, I do not feel I've learned much this semester with this book.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe best resource I've come across for a social perspective on advocacy
By Chris on October 11, 2010
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An excellent and very readable book, an irreplaceable part of my reading on advocacy (for a dissertation project), excellently draws out aspects of advocacy missed by more institution-centric or structuralist approaches, for example rhetoric, rumour and even humour. One small drawback is that it is focused on US politics, but I've still found it very relevant to my research on advocacy in war contexts, which is testament to the clarity of analysis.
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5.0 out of 5 starsgood book
By Devon on March 8, 2013
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Best does a good job of explaining social problems in America. He really breaks things down. The figures are also very helpful.
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5.0 out of 5 starsI borrowed this book for my Sociology class, but ...
By Richard Evans on February 13, 2016
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I borrowed this book for my Sociology class, but was so impressed with Joel Best's Social Constructionist presentation that I had to buy it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFor school.
By Rebecca Anderson on September 8, 2015
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A school text book. Read's easy and like a dialog. The use of parenthesis can be too often and distracting.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By Victoria on September 21, 2014
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By Kayla Cross on June 28, 2014
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The book helped me with all my assignments in my online social problems course.
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