Social Problems and Social Movements - Paperback

by James DeFronzo (Author), Jungyun Gill (Author)

Social Problems aims to not only introduce students to the key social problems discussed in most courses, but also to show them that change is possible by introducing them to key social movements working to solve some of these social problems.

Author Biography

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).