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James M. Henslin
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Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach
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1991
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127 editions
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Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach
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1993
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127 editions
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Down to Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings
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1975
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39 editions
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Social Problems: A Down-to-Earth Approach
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1983
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44 editions
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Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach CORE Concepts (5th Edition)
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2005
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35 editions
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Mastering Sociology
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2012
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12 editions
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Exploring Social Life: Readings to Accompany Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach (4th Edition)
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2003
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9 editions
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Seeing the Social Context: Readings to Accompany Social Problems
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Essentials of Sociology "Practice Tests" Down to Earth Approach (4th Edition)
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2002
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Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach
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2002
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“Symbolic interactionists stress that to understand poverty we must focus on what
poverty means to people. When people evaluate where they are in life, they compare
themselves with others. In some rural areas, simple marginal living is the norm, and
people living in these circumstances don’t feel poor. But in Leslie’s cosmopolitan circle,
people can feel deprived if they cannot afford the latest upscale designer clothing from
their favorite boutique. The meaning of poverty, then, is relative: What poverty is differs
from group to group within the same society, as well as from culture to culture and from
one era to the next.”
― Social Problems: A Down-to-Earth Approach
poverty means to people. When people evaluate where they are in life, they compare
themselves with others. In some rural areas, simple marginal living is the norm, and
people living in these circumstances don’t feel poor. But in Leslie’s cosmopolitan circle,
people can feel deprived if they cannot afford the latest upscale designer clothing from
their favorite boutique. The meaning of poverty, then, is relative: What poverty is differs
from group to group within the same society, as well as from culture to culture and from
one era to the next.”
― Social Problems: A Down-to-Earth Approach
“Arrests and convictions have increased at such a torrid pace that
the states and federal government haven’t been able to build prisons fast enough to hold
all of their incoming prisoners. To keep up, they hired corporations to operate private
prisons for them. About 130,000 prisoners are held in these “for-profit” prisons (Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2010:Table 6.32.2009). Actually, the United States
has even more prisoners than shown in Figure 6.2, since this total does not include jail
inmates. If we add them, the total comes to about 2.3 million people—about one out
of every 135 citizens. Not only does the United States have more prisoners than any
other country in the world but it also has a larger percentage of its population in prison
(Massoglia et al. 2013). Another way of putting this is that the United States has only
5 percent of the world’s population but about 25 percent of the world’s prisoners”
― Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach
the states and federal government haven’t been able to build prisons fast enough to hold
all of their incoming prisoners. To keep up, they hired corporations to operate private
prisons for them. About 130,000 prisoners are held in these “for-profit” prisons (Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2010:Table 6.32.2009). Actually, the United States
has even more prisoners than shown in Figure 6.2, since this total does not include jail
inmates. If we add them, the total comes to about 2.3 million people—about one out
of every 135 citizens. Not only does the United States have more prisoners than any
other country in the world but it also has a larger percentage of its population in prison
(Massoglia et al. 2013). Another way of putting this is that the United States has only
5 percent of the world’s population but about 25 percent of the world’s prisoners”
― Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach
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