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Social policies in the making. A dynamic view of social problems. [With illustrations.]

"This book is designed to orient youth to the major social forces operating in modern society and show how they affect individual adjustment and social problems. It is an analysis of contemporary social problems as they emerge from the experience of man in a rapidly changing culture which roots deeply in a more stable past. In style the book is designed for the college student in the lower division who is usually escorted through one of three courses: social problems, social pathology, or social science orientation. Either course is at best a smattering presentation of many problems rather than a penetrating analysis of any. The most one can hope to achieve is to develop a point of view, a perspective for understanding. To help in this vital objective, Part I gives a brief survey of the disturbing forces of a dynamic society which are the underlying cause of the numerous symptomatic manifestations called social problems"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved).

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