Global Problems, Global Solutions

A global look at social problems, using the UN¿s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a framework.

1: Private Troubles and Social Problems: Developing a Sociological ImaginationPART I: NOURISHING HUMAN CAPITAL2: Socioeconomic Fault Lines: Inequality, Poverty, and Development3: Starving in the Shadow of Plenty4: Optimizing Human Capital: Good Health5: Expanding Horizons Through Lifelong LearningPART II: RESTORING CIVILITY TO SOCIAL LIFE6: From Difference to Discrimination: Fault Lines of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion7: You Can't Empower Us With Chickens: Gender Through the Lifespan8: When Life Becomes a Commodity: Human and Wildlife Trafficking9: Transnational Property Crimes10: The Challenge of Political ViolencePART III: SUSTAINING NATURAL AND MANUFACTURED ENVIRONMENTS11: Global Flows of Refugees12: Destruction and Depletion of the Natural Environment13: Climate Change and Global Warming14: Urbanization: The Lure of the Cities15: A World Gone Awry? The State of Governance