Taking sides
Subtitle: Clashing views on controversial social issues
By: edited, selected, and with introductions by Kurt Finsterbusch and George McKenna
Edition: 10th ed.
Publisher: Dushkin Pub. Group/Brown & Benchmark
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780697391131
Subjects: Social conditions; Social policy; Social problems; Social conflict
Other titles: Clashing views on controversial social issues
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is America in moral decline?; title: Does the news media have a liberal bias?; title: Is Third World immigration a threat to America's way of life?; title: Is feminism a harmful ideology?; title: Are communication problems between men and women largely due to radically different conversation styles?; title: Should society be more accepting of homosexuality?; title: Is the decline of the traditional family a national crisis?; title: Is increasing economic inequality a serious problem?; title: Are the poor largely responsible for their poverty?; title: Has affirmative action outlived its usefulness?; title: Is government dominated by big business?; title: Should government intervene in a capitalist economy?; title: Will welfare reform benefit the poor?; title: Are vouchers the solution to the ills of public education?; title: Should doctor-assisted suicide be legalized for the terminally ill?; title: Is street crime more harmful than white-collar crime?; title: Should drug use be decriminalized?; title: Is incapacitation the answer to the crime problem?; title: Does population growth threaten humanity?; title: Are standards of living in the United States improving?