Global Problems: The Search for Equity, Peace, and Sustainability (3rd Edition)
Language: English
Pages: 408
ISBN: 0205841775
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Exploring social problems on a global scale
This text uses social science perspectives to examine the various dimensions of globalization, the social problems of inequality, war and violence, and environmental sustainability that are occurring on a global scale.
Clear writing and vivid examples help students to better understand their role as global citizens. The book was designed for courses such as Global Issues, Contemporary Problems, Social Problems, Social Stratification, World Cultures, and Social Change.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers should be able to:
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Understand social problems on a global scale – from inequalities to sustainability
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See the interconnections of the world and people throughout the world
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Learn about issues with a multinational and multidisciplinary approach, so readers will be able to have a broader understanding of the subject
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Mix of old and new. All the world is the new intruding on, layering over, and mixing among the old. But India is especially fervent, even reverent, about each. Only here is traditional clothing, the saris of the women, the longyi wraps of the men, worn every day, for work, not festivals. Here our host’s parents tend the temple they built on their land for two and a half hours every day, while he grapples with lawyers and figures profit margins. We ride a bullock cart over the red earth and chat.
The Aztecs and Mayans—valued education greatly. That education consisted largely of studying astronomy (with related mathematics) and memorizing ancient tales, just as with many other ancient peoples. Yet their accomplishments were substantial. The Mayans used place value and the zero perhaps before the people of India and certainly before Arabs and later Europeans adopted their use. They precisely calculated the orbit of Venus long before Copernicus ever ventured his theory about planets.
Japan. Wealth flowed in. China and Ottoman Turkey remained powerful, but in terms of control of the world system, the 1400s became the Portuguese Century. By the end of the 1400s, Isabel the Catholic of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon were uniting Spain and driving out the last of its Islamic rulers. After years of war, they needed money. But the Portuguese controlled the African trade and the sea routes to Asia. When an Italian-born sailor, whom the English would call Christopher Columbus,.
Chapter 5 Crime 135 and the energetic Paul McCartney found cocaine. But the Eastern-looking George Harrison found hashish. Much more common was the inexpensive and easily attainable marijuana. Less potent and less addictive (though its dangers and addictive qualities have often been debated), marijuana became a common social drug. Even today in the United States, about one-third of the adult population admits to having tried a form of cannabis, usually smoking marijuana. In fact, politicians.