Social Problems: A Critical Thinking Approach

By Paul J. Baker

Instead of just describing social problems, this book helps students develop active critical thinking skills through evaluating and analyzing readings from social scientists and journalists on major... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534190146
• ISBN13: 9780534190149
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

wonderful introduction

More of a primer on critical thinking than simply a textbook on social problems, Dorn, Anderson and Baker have created a eminently useful and rewarding collection of excercises and articles in this newest edition of their popular text.While this book was never used in any classes I took, I did take an undergraduate critical thinking class in the Sociology department at CSU Sacramento at the same time that Dean Dorn was teaching there. I think he integrated some of what Andy Hiken, who taught that class, used; the structured and extensive frameworks for critical thinking excercises and other bits and pieces of the curriculum. I have read this text and others that use a similar model and find that the Dorn/Baker/Anderson book is useful, rewarding and especially interesting for use in an undergraduate environment.