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- ISBN 9781324085874
- Weight: 441g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2024
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Joel Best, author of the best-selling Damned Lies and Statistics, and new coauthor Brian Monahan offer a fresh approach to the social problems course. Rather than overloading students with details and data, the book focuses on how and why particular conditions come to be constructed as social problems. Each chapter explores a different stage of the construction process, ending with a rich case study that applies the concepts to a contemporary issue. In this way, the authors equip students with the tools needed to analyze any social problem they encounter in the media.
Joel Best is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. Best’s research focuses on understanding how and why we become concerned with particular issues at particular moments in time. He’s written about the ways bad statistics creep into public debates and about dubious fears, such as the mistaken belief that poisoned Halloween candy poses a serious threat to our kids. His books include Damned Lies and Statistics, Kids Gone Wild, The Student Loan Mess and Flavor of the Month.
Brian Monahan is a professor of sociology at Baldwin Wallace University, where he teaches social problems, crime and the media, deviance, and criminology. Monahan’s research examines how the press and popular culture guide public understanding of crime and other social problems. He is the author of Social Problems and Popular Culture and The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11.
