Social Science : Social Issues

Youths today cope with a multitude of challenges that test their ethical and physical mettle. These reports from The CQ Researcher allow young people, their parents, educators and leaders to study the background and debates surrounding the conditions and rights of young Americans and become knowledgeable participants in those debates. more...

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Two forces have shaken the United States: the rise of terrorism and an unprecedented loss of jobs to outsourcing. The CQ Researcher reports that make up this book will enable students and citizens to study the background and debates surrounding the social issues that transform American life and to become knowledgeable participants in those debates. more...

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In this work, Ted Galen Carpenter examines the domestic phase of Washington's war on drugs and how it has received considerable criticism over the years from Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, Kurt Schmoke, and other luminaries who have catalogued the destructive effects on American society. more...

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Social indicators inform citizens and governments alike on progress in society. The past decade has seen the birth of regional social barometers designed to monitor quality of life in all corners of the globe. Social scientists from different societal backgrounds have developed sets of indicators to guide policy in promoting citizen welfare and to monitor progress in achieving social goals. In many cases, this has been a team effort engaging policy makers and citizens. The contributions to this book span quality-of-life assessments on six continents ranging from the Arctic in the far north to a down-undera (TM) Australia in the south. Of interest to both social scientists and policy makers, regional barometers reflect local nuances that capturing the essence of well-being under very different living conditions and in tune with popular expectations of the good life. The authors, all experts from different regions of the world, sketch the survey or surveys that serve as quality-of-life barometers in their part of the world. They share with us the most fascinating trends they have observed in survey results in the new millennium. more...

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The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, “I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club.” Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthetic experiences always a social good? Could aesthetics also inspire violent crime, working-class unrest, and racial murder? To answer these questions, Russ Castronovo turns to those who debated claims that art could democratize culture—civic reformers, anarchists, novelists, civil rights activists, and college professors—to reveal that beauty provides unexpected occasions for radical, even revolutionary, political thinking. Beautiful Democracy explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics from a century ago along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, magic lantern exhibitions, and other public spectacles. Philosophical aesthetics, realist novels, urban photography, and black periodicals, Castronovo argues, inspired and instigated all sorts of collective social endeavors, from the progressive nature of tenement reform to the horrors of lynching. Discussing Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charlie Chaplin, William Dean Howells, and Riis as aesthetic theorists in the company of Kant and Schiller, Beautiful Democracy ultimately suggests that the distance separating academic thinking and popular wisdom about social transformation is narrower than we generally suppose. more...

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