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MindTap Sociology, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Mooney/Knox/Schacht's Understanding Social Problems, 10th Edition

Linda A. Mooney, Ph.D., David Knox, Ph.D., Caroline Schacht, M.A.

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MindTap Sociology, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Mooney/Knox/Schacht's Understanding Social Problems 10th Edition by Linda A. Mooney, Ph.D./David Knox, Ph.D./Caroline Schacht, M.A.
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Overview

MindTap Sociology for Mooney/Knox/Schacht's Understanding Social Problems, 10th Edition is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It gives you complete control of your course\u2014to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual, and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You. MindTap gives you complete ownership of your content and learning experience. Customize the interactive syllabi, emphasize the most important topics, and add your own material or notes in the eBook.

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Linda A. Mooney, Ph.D.

Linda A. Mooney, Ph.D., is an emeritus faculty member at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. In addition to social problems, her specialties include sociology of law, criminology and juvenile delinquency. Dr. Mooney has served as senior author for eleven editions of this prominent text. She has also published more than 30 professional articles in such journals as Social Forces, Sociological Inquiry, Sex Roles, Sociological Quarterly and Teaching Sociology. Dr. Mooney has won numerous teaching awards, including the University of North Carolina, Board of Governor's Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award.

David Knox, Ph.D.

David Knox, Ph.D., is professor of sociology at East Carolina University, where he teaches courtship and marriage; marriage and the family; and sociology of human sexuality. He is a marriage and family therapist as well as the author or co-author of 12 books and over 100 professional articles.

Caroline Schacht, M.A.

Caroline Schacht, M.A. in Sociology and M.A. in Child Development and Family Relations, is Instructor Emeritus at East Carolina University. She retired from a career teaching sociology to become a certified Romana's Pilates instructor. She is co-author of several textbooks and balances her time writing and revising, teaching Pilates in her home studio, and writing children's verses and songs for her grandchildren.

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  • MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, automatically grades assignments and quizzes while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.
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  • With the MindTap Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
  • Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
  • Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times—both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.
  • Engage students with course material specially customized for them by you streamlined in one proven, easy-to-use interface.
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Table of Contents

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LEARNING PATH:

Visual Summary – This is an interactive map of the chapter, enabling students to preview or review sections and see how they fit together. Each section is summarized with the key terms and concepts the student needs to know.

eBook for Understanding Social Problems, 10th Edition – Students will access the reading through the MindTap Reader, which includes notetaking, highlighting, and ReadSpeak capabilities.

Practice Questions – This section contains the Aplia problem set for the chapter, walking students through various chapter concepts.

Connect a Concept to the News – Students will watch a current news video related to the chapter, then answer multiple choice questions to help them apply sociological concepts to the content in the video.

Apply a Concept to Your Experience – These essay questions prompt students to relate chapter material to their own lives, connecting course concepts with personal experiences.

Practice Test - The chapter ends with a 25 question multiple choice test to assess understanding of the learning objectives.

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  • ISBN-10: 1305660110
  • ISBN-13: 9781305660113
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