Framing 21st Century Social Issues

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1. Unequal Prospects

   Is Working Longer the Answer?

   By Tay McNamara, John Williamson

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   In light of the recent financial crisis and changing economic landscape, McNamara and Williamson present and analyze the possibility of working longer. Including a range of potential policies (e.g., further increasing the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits, allocating...

   Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge
2. Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex

   Crime and Incarceration in the 21st Century

   By Kevin Wehr, Elyshia Aseltine

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and its impact on society. Wehr and Aseltine define the prison industrial complex and explain how the current prison system is a contemporary social problem. They conclude...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Girls with Guns

   Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism

   By France Winddance Twine

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   About the Series The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60 page or shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Torture

   A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights

   By Lisa Hajjar

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   Torture is indisputably abhorrent. Why, you might ask, would you even want to think or read about torture? That is a very good question, and one this book addresses in a compelling and enlightening way. Torture is a very important issue, not least because millions of people around the world...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Terror

   Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives

   By Mark Worrell

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   About the Series The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60-page-or-shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. DIY: The Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century

   By Kevin Wehr

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas’s colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx’s concepts of alienation...

   Published March 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives

   The Power of Race, Class, and Gender

   By Natalia Sarkisian, Naomi Gerstel

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family – with its exclusion of the extended family – is narrow, even deleterious, and misses much of family life. This omission is tied to gender, race, and class. This book is broken down into six...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
8. Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

   By Henry A. Giroux

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
9. Foreign Remedies: What the Experience of Other Nations Can Tell Us about Next Steps in Reforming U.S. Health Care

   By David A. Rochefort, Kevin P Donnelly

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act marked a watershed in U.S. health policy, but controversy over its passage rages on, and much uncertainty surrounds the law’s transformation from blueprint into operational program. How can the experience of other nations help us to reconcile the...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age

    By Ben Agger

    Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

    People ‘overshare’ when they interact with others through the screens of computers and smartphones. Oversharing means to divulge more of their inner feelings, opinions and sexuality than they would in person, or even over the phone. Text messaging, Facebooking, tweeting, camming, blogging, online...

    Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge