Social Problems and Social Movements

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Intended as the primary text for a social problems course, DeFronzo and Gills Social Problems and Social Movements stresses the need for collective action and social movements to solve social problems. Both instructors and students will find this a useful framework in which to view todays most pressing social issues.

Chapter 1 introduces the topic of social problems. Chapter 2 explains how social movements address social problems and describes sociological explanations for the development of social movements. Chapter 3 describes the power frameworks that participants in social movements must deal with in order to achieve success. Each following chapter presents overviews of social problems and provides examples of how working together can bring about positive change.Social Movements and Special Topics boxes provide information on aspects of specific social problems as well as how people organize and work together to solve them.

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James DeFronzo is emeritus faculty of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of numerous articles in the areas of social movements, political sociology, gender and criminology and several books, including Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements (5th edition, 2015), and editor of the three volume Revolutionary Movements in World History: From 1750 to the Present (2006).

Jungyun Gill is associate professor of sociology at Stonehill College and the author of Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children: Birth, Foster and Adoptive Mothers (2017).