| ISBN | 9781506347783 |
| Call Number | HN18.3 .C44 2019 |
| Author | Chirico, JoAnn. |
| Title | Global problems, global solutions : prospects for a better world / JoAnn Chirico, Emeritus, The Pennsylvania State University, University College. |
| Imprint | Los Angeles : SAGE, 2019. |
| Physical | xxv, 616 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-580) and index. |
| Content | 1. Private Troubles and Social Problems: Developing a Sociological Imagination -- 2. Socioeconomic Fault Lines: Inequality, Poverty, and Development -- 3. Starving in the Shadow of Plenty -- 4. Optimizing Human Capital: Good Health -- 5. Expanding Horizons Through Lifelong Learning -- 6. From Difference to Discrimination: Fault Lines of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion -- 7. You Can't Empower Us with Chickens: Gender Through the Lifespan -- 8. When Life Becomes a Commodity: Human and Wildlife Trafficking -- 9. Transnational Property Crimes -- 10. The Challenge of Political Violence -- 11. Global Flows of Refugees -- 12. Environmental and Economic Migration -- 13. Destruction and Depletion of the Natural Environment -- 14. Climate Change and Global Warming -- 15. Urbanization: The Lure of the Cities -- 16. A World Gone Awry? The State of Governance |
| Subject | Social problems. (5) |
| | Globalization -- Social aspects. (15) |
| Holding | LIC |
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