Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- President’s Welcome
- Editorial Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- About the Society for the Study of Social Problems
- Notes on Contributors
- Section I Ethnicity, Race, and Gender
- Section II Health and Families
- Section III Education
- Section IV Crime and (In)Justice
- Section V Enduring Challenges
- Section VI Looking Forward
- Afterword: America on the Edge: Fighting for a Socially Just World
President’s Welcome
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- President’s Welcome
- Editorial Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- About the Society for the Study of Social Problems
- Notes on Contributors
- Section I Ethnicity, Race, and Gender
- Section II Health and Families
- Section III Education
- Section IV Crime and (In)Justice
- Section V Enduring Challenges
- Section VI Looking Forward
- Afterword: America on the Edge: Fighting for a Socially Just World
Summary
As an organization, the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) has a membership that is well-versed in a myriad of specific and broad problems facing the world. With the complexity and onslaught of crises worldwide, we can all be tempted to throw up our arms and get lost in a Netflix series, but as a social justice organization grounded in social science, we do not have that option. Instead, we engage in work that creates solutions toward a more just world. The SSSP was created and is sustained by individuals who have identified solutions to social problems. We are an organization of scholars who create dreams of transformation, guided and built upon our sociological imagination and research, sense of hope in humanity, and a belief in our ability to create change. We mobilize our sociological research and insight to inform policy and activism that will lead to the creation of more just worlds. Imagine for a moment, we could easily be the Society for the Study of Social Solutions! On behalf of the SSSP, I am honored to invite you to read the Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2020 and to thank Glenn Muschert and his team for their work on this superb volume.
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- Agenda for Social JusticeSolutions for 2020, pp. viiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2020