How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment
How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment

Author: Sheldon Ekland-Olson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1136465235

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Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these connections gave rise to a small but well-focused reform movement. Biased and perfunctory procedures were replaced by prolonged trials and appeals, which some found messy and meaningless; DNA profiling clearly established innocent persons had been sentenced to death. The debate over taking life to protect life continues; this book is based on a hugely popular undergraduate course taught at the University of Texas, and is ideal for those interested in criminal justice, social problems, social inequality, and social movements. This book is an excerpt from a larger text, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?, http://www.routledge.com/9780415892476/

How Ethical Systems Change: Abortion and Neonatal Care
How Ethical Systems Change: Abortion and Neonatal Care

Author: Sheldon Ekland-Olson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-04-23

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1136467750

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Roe v. Wade came like a bolt from the blue, but support had been building for years. For many, the idea that life in the womb was not fully protected under the Constitution was simply not acceptable. Political campaigns were organized and protests launched, including the bombing of clinics and the killing of abortion providers. Questions about the protection and support of life continued after birth. This book is based on a hugely popular undergraduate course taught at the University of Texas, and is ideal for those interested in the social construction of social worth, social problems, and social movements. This book is part of a larger text, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415892476/

How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying
How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying

Author: Sheldon Ekland-Olson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1136465375

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Medical advances prolong life. They also sometimes prolong suffering. Should we protect life or alleviate suffering? This dilemma formed the foundation for a powerful right-to-die movement and a counterbalancing concern over an emerging culture of death. What are the qualities of a life worth living? Where are the boundaries of tolerable suffering? This book is based on a hugely popular undergraduate course taught at the University of Texas, and is ideal for those interested in the social construction of social worth, social problems, and social movements. This book is part of a larger text, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?, http://www.routledge.com/9780415892476/

How Ethical Systems Change: Eugenics, the Final Solution, Bioethics
How Ethical Systems Change: Eugenics, the Final Solution, Bioethics

Author: Sheldon Ekland-Olson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-04-23

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1136476180

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Mandatory sterilization laws enacted in dozens of states coast-to-coast and approved by the U.S. Supreme Court formed the initial pillar for what became the Final Solution. Following WWII, there was renewed interest in a more inclusive view of social worth and the autonomy of the individual. Social movements were launched to secure broad-based revisions in civil and human rights. This book is based on a hugely popular undergraduate course taught at the University of Texas, and is ideal for those interested in science-based policy, the social construction of social worth, social problems, and social movements. This book is an excerpt from a larger text, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?, http://www.routledge.com/9780415892476/

Hate Crime
Hate Crime

Author: Paul Iganski

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 1317655540

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This short, accessible text takes on the global and pervasive phenomenon of hate crimes and hypothesizes potential fixes. Iganski and Levin detail evidence of hate violence in the 21st century, particularly religious hatred, ethnic, racial and xenophobic hatred, violence on the basis of sexual orientation and sexual identity, disablist violence, and violence against women, using the most recently published data from cross-national surveys produced by international organizations. This is an ideal addition to any course on social problems, violence, or hate crimes.

The Global Beauty Industry
The Global Beauty Industry

Author: Meeta Jha

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-16

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1317557964

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The Global Beauty Industry is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and intersectionality. Integrating materials from a wide range of cultural and geo-political contexts, it coalesces with initiatives to produce more internationally relevant curricula in fields such as sociology, as well as cultural, women's/gender, media, and globalization studies.

Social Problems
Social Problems

Author: Eric Bonds

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1317816080

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This short book lays out a new definition for what constitutes a social problem: the violation of a group’s human rights, which are understood as commonly upheld standards about what people deserve and should be protected from in life. Evaluating U.S. society from an international human rights perspective, Bonds also stresses that human rights are necessarily political and can therefore never be part of a purely objective exercise to assess wellbeing in a particular society. His approach recognizes that there is no one single interpretation of what rights mean, and that different groups with differing interests are going to promote divergent views, some better than others. This book is ideal for undergraduate sociology courses on social problems, as well as courses on social justice and human rights.

Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream
Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream

Author: Zulema Valdez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 1317413296

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The book's central focus explores several "myths" associated with American entrepreneurship: the idea that small business owners are "job creators"; that entrepreneurs are the "backbone" or "engine" of the economy; that entrepreneurship provides a path of economic mobility for immigrants, ethnic and racial minorities, and women; that the Horatio Algiers "rags to riches" story is possible for anyone willing to work hard. Instead, I provide a critical perspective that challenges these myths of American enterprise, arguing that successful entrepreneurship requires access to social and economic capital resources and support that are often distributed along the lines of race, class, and gender in the highly stratified American economy and society.

Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age
Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age

Author: Ben Agger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-11

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1317554523

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People ‘overshare’ when they interact with others through the screens of computers and smartphones. Oversharing means to divulge more of their inner feelings, opinions and sexuality than they would in person, or even over the phone. Text messaging, Facebooking, tweeting, camming, blogging, online dating, and internet porn are vehicles of this oversharing, which blurs the boundary between public and private life. This book examines these ‘presentations of self’, acknowledging that we are now much more public about what used to be private. With this second edition, Agger adds a new chapter on whether privacy is possible that addresses selfies, job loss due to oversharing, the surveillance state, and examples of when the private should go public.

Outsourcing the Womb
Outsourcing the Womb

Author: France Winddance Twine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1317518020

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Through case studies, Outsourcing the Womb, Second Edition provides a critical analysis and global tour of the international surrogacy landscape in Egypt, India, China, Japan, Israel, Ukraine, the European Union and the United States. By providing a comparative analysis of countries that have very different policies, this book disentangles the complex role that race, religion, class inequality, legal regimes, and global capitalism play in the gestational surrogacy market. This book provides an intersectional frame of analysis in which multiple forms of social inequality and power differences become institutionalized and restrict the access of some individuals and families while privileging others, and concludes with a discussion of "reproductive justice" and "reproductive liberty." It is an ideal addition to courses on social problems, race, gender, and inequality.