Social Issues

A social issue is a problem that influences a considerable number of the individuals within a society. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's social issue is the source of a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as a morally just personal life or societal order.

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New Releases Tagged "Social Issues"

Finding My Way
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Poverty, by America
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
Men Who Hate Women
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
People Like Us
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Consider Yourself Kissed
The Girls We Sent Away
The Undocumented Americans
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
The Hate U Give
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Between the World and Me
Just Mercy
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
How to Be an Antiracist
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
We Should All Be Feminists
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Handmaid's Tale
Poverty, by America

LaShonda C. Henderson
But I want to caution you, what I am telling you is not for you to judge people. It is simply to help you understand that pain changes people. Sometimes forever.
LaShonda C. Henderson, Selah The Myth of Love Life Stories

Abhijit Naskar
Prejudice, dogma, ultraindividualism, nationalism, fascism, fundamentalism, these are not problems of human behavior, these are classic cases of animal nature.
Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

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