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MindTap for Mooney/Clever/Van Willigen's Understanding Social Problems, 1 term Instant Access, 11th Edition

Linda A. Mooney, Ph.D., Molly Clever, Ph.D., Marieke Van Willigen, Ph.D.

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MindTap for Mooney/Clever/Van Willigen's Understanding Social Problems, 1 term Instant Access 11th Edition by Linda A. Mooney, Ph.D./Molly Clever, Ph.D./Marieke Van Willigen, Ph.D.

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MindTap for Mooney/Van Willigen/Clever's Understanding Social Problems, 11th Edition, is a personalized, online learning platform that provides students with an immersive learning experience to build and foster critical thinking skills. It gives you complete control of your course -- to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You.\n\nStudents learn to think critically about increasingly complex social issues as the latest data, relevant examples and a student-centered approach offer a theoretically rich, evidenced-based discussion of important social issues facing the world in 2021. MindTap combines student learning tools -- readings, comprehension checks, practice activities, multimedia, and assessments -- into a singular Learning Path that guides students through their course. Activities designed to track to learning outcomes and build in complexity provide students with a clear pathway to success while providing faculty with a transparent and user-friendly means of measuring student progress. \n\nMindTap learning activities engage students with a variety of content types that extend learning experience beyond the textbook -- these include polling exercises, practice activities, and scenario-based explorations of diverse perspectives. A groundbreaking mobile app experience enables greater flexibility for students to fit learning into their day, wherever they are. \n\nAs an instructor, MindTap is here to simplify your workload, organize and immediately grade your students' assignments, and allow you to customize your course as you see fit. Through deep-seated integration with your Learning Management System, grades are easily exported, and analytics are pulled with the click of a button. MindTap is available on its own or for use in conjunction with the printed text.

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.

Molly Clever, Ph.D.

Molly Clever, Ph.D., is an associate professor of sociology and social justice at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, WV. She teaches on social conflict, war, social movements, community engagement and issues related to political and economic inequality. She has recently published in Teaching Sociology and has authored numerous articles and book chapters focused on community engagement teaching and learning practices as well as the changing nature of war and military organizations.

Marieke Van Willigen, Ph.D.

Marieke Van Willigen, Ph.D., is professor of sociology at Georgia Southern University, where she teaches global sociology, family, social statistics, medical sociology and sociology of mental health. She recently concluded eleven years of serving as university administrator at two different universities. She is the author or co-author of numerous articles published in such journals as the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Gerontology, Journal of Marriage and Family and the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. More than 20 of Dr. Willigen's students have earned doctoral degrees and now serve in faculty positions across the country.
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Part I: SOCIOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS.
1. Thinking about Social Problems.
Part II: PROBLEMS OF WELL-BEING.
2. Physical and Mental Health and Health Care.
3. Alcohol and Other Drugs.
4. Crime and Social Control.
5. Family Problems.
Part III: PROBLEMS OF INEQUALITY.
6. Economic Inequality, Wealth, and Poverty.
7. Work and Unemployment.
8. Problems in Education.
9. Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration.
10. Gender Inequality.
11. Sexual Orientation and the Struggle for Equality.
Part IV: PROBLEMS OF GLOBALIZATION.
12. Population Growth and Aging.
13. Environmental Problems.
14. Science and Technology.
15. Conflict, War, and Terrorism.
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  • ISBN-10: 0357507487
  • ISBN-13: 9780357507483
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