Understanding Social Issues: Critical Thinking and Analysis (5th Edition)
This book offers readers the opportunity to do meaningful research in a non-threatening way by analyzing statistical data provided in each of the fourteen modules. Utilizing an interactive workbook format, readers are introduced to a number of interesting topics such as the value of a college education, and changing immigration patterns in the United States.   In each module, readers are asked to think about how each of these problems impacts society and may affect them personally. By answering these types of questions, they come to understand that social issues are not made up of abstract concepts.  New sociologists who fear data analysis.