social aspects

Collects fifteen articles that present positive and negative viewpoints on childhood sports, exploring such aspects as physical and mental benefits and harmfulness, neglect of academics, and financial costs; and includes an annotated list of related organizations.

Explores the impact the growing role of creativity has had on the American economy, explaining how creative people are gradually changing American society, its values, tastes, relationships, careers, and cities.

A collection of forty essays in which individuals from a variety of disciplines examine topics related to body weight, discussing the influence of social class on weight and health, social inequality, the portrayal of overweight individuals in popular culture and literature, and more.

Fourteen essays present opposing arguments on wireless technology, covering such topics as classroom use, business productivity, security, wireless implants, and the urban poor.

Explores how folk singer and song writer Pete Seeger used his musical talents to improve conditions for those less fortunate and discusses how folk music has been used in protest movements throughout the twentieth century.

Examines video games and the different aspects people have about them.

Profiles the role of tobacco and smoking in times of war and in times of prosperity.

A collection of fourteen essays which discusses technology's influence on learning, debating the effectiveness of online classes, the Internet, and social networking, and other related topics.

A collection of eighteen essays that offers varying perspectives on the debate over the banning of social networking Web sites.

Draws on eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper accounts, and other resources to present opposing viewpoints about the debate over reality television and its impact on American society.