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"

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One Word, Six Letters
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
Poverty, by America
Consider Yourself Kissed
The Girls We Sent Away
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
We Are Not Like Them
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Perfectly Nice Neighbors
Fight Oligarchy
That's What Friends Are For
Frank and Red
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
So You Want to Talk About Race
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
Poverty, by America
The Handmaid's Tale
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They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom for themselves and their own class. ...more
Margaret Butler, The Lion of England

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Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.
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