An edition of Taking sides
(1988)
Taking sides
Clashing views on political issues
18th ed., expanded.
by Kurt Finsterbusch and George McKenna
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This volume presents current controversial issues surrounding current controversial issues in the field of sociology in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Sociology uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social activity. For some sociologists, the goal is to apply such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare, while for others it is to seek an understanding of how individuals are influenced by the social world we live in. This topic is framed with a general summary and introduction, and a postscript or challenge questions. This work features an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites and an online instructor's resource guide with testing material available.
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Table of Contents
unit 1. Democracy and the American political system
issue 1. Should Americans believe in a unique American "mission"?
Yes : First things (from The founding of nations, March 2006) / Wilfred M. McClay
No : The power and the glory : myths of American exceptionalism, (Boston Review, Summer 2005) / Howard Zinn
2. Does the Tea Party represent a revival of America's revolutionary ideals?
Yes : Give us liberty : a Tea Party manifesto (HarperCollins, 2010) / Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe
No : The whites of their eyes : the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history (Princeton Univ. Press, 2010) / Jill Lepore
3. Is bigger government better government?
Yes : The case for big government (Princeton Univ. Press, 2008) / Jeff Madrick
No : Saving freedom (Fidelis, 2009) / Jim DeMint
4. Should America adopt public financing of political campaigns?
Yes : Selling out : how big corporate money buys elections, rams through legislation, and betrays our democracy (from Change for good, HarperCollins, 2005) / Mark Green
No : Taxpayer financing of campaigns (from Welfare for politicians? Taxpayer financing of campaigns, Cato Inst., 2005) / John Samples
unit 2. The institutions of government
5. Does the president have unilateral war powers?
Yes : Memorandum opinion for the Deputy Counsel to the President (September 25, 2001) / John C. Yoo
No : The "imperial presidency" triumphant ( in Executing the Constitution, SUNY, 2006) / Michael Cairo
6. Should the courts seek the "original meaning" of the Constitution?
Yes : Constitutional interpretation (2005) / Antonin Scalia
No : Active liberty : interpreting our democratic Constitution (Knopf/Vintage 2005) / Stephen Breyer
7. Is Congress a dysfunctional institution?
Yes : What happens when Congress fails to do its job? (Newsweek, March 27, 2010) / Ezra Klein
No : Public criticism of congress (How Congress works, Indiana Univ. Pr., 2004) / Lee H. Hamilton
8. May Congress require people to buy health insurance?
Yes : Order denying plaintiff's motion (Thomas More Law Center v. Obama, October 7, 2010 / George Caram Steeh
No : Memorandum opinion (Virginia v. Sebelius, December 13, 2010) / Henry Hudson
9. Should the president be allowed "executive privileges"?
Yes : Pro ( in Debating the presidency : conflicting perspectives on the American Executive, CQ Press, 2006) / Mark J. Rozell
No : Con (in Debating the presidency : conflicting perspectives on the American Executive, CQ Press, 2006) / David Gray Adler
unit 3. Social change and public policy
10. Does affirmative action advance racial equality?
Yes : The anatomy of racial inequality (Harvard Univ. Pr., 2002) / Glenn c. Loury
No : Affirmative action can't be mended (in Toward liberty : the idea that is changing the world, Cato Inst., 2002) / Walter E. Williams
11. Should abortion be restricted?
Yes : God's reasons (The clash of orthodoxies : law, religion, and morality in crisis, ISI Books, 2001) / Robert P. George
No : A moral choice (The Atlantic Monthly, March 1990) / Mary Gordon
12. Is the welfare state obsolete?
Yes : Beyond the Welfare State (National Affairs, Spring, 2011) / Yuval Levin
No : Wealth & welfare states : is America a laggard or leader? (Oxford Univ. Pr., 2010) / Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding
13. Are Americans overtaxed?
Yes : Seven myths about taxing the rich (Backgrounder, The American Heritage Foundation, August 3, 2009) / Curtis S. Dubay
No : If we decided to tax the rich (from Sharing the pie : a citizen's guide to wealth and power, Holt Paperbacks, 1998) / Steve Brouwer
14. Is America becoming more unequal?
Yes : testimony before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the House Committee on Education and Labor (July 31, 2008) / Robert Greenstein
No : The new wealth of nations (Commentary, October 1997) / Christopher DeMuth
15. Should same-sex marriage be a Constitutional right?
Yes : The conservative case for gay marriage : why same-sex marriage is an American value (The Daily Beast, January 8, 2010) / Theodore B. Olson
No : Gay marriage and marriage (Commentary, November 2003) / Sam Shulman
16. Should there be a "wall of separation" between church and state?
Yes : Dissenting opinion in Van Orden v. Perry, 545 U.S. 677 (June 27, 2005) / John Paul Stevens
Dissenting opinion in McCreary County, et al., v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, et al., 545 U.S. 844 (June 27, 2005)
17. Do corporations have the same free speech rights as persons?
Yes : Opinion of the Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) / Anthony Kennedy
No : Dissenting opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) / John Paul Stevens
18. Should "recreational" drugs be legalized?
Yes : Drug policy, criminal justice, and mass imprisonment (from paper presented to the Global Commission on Drug Policies, January 2011) / Bryan Stevenson
Don't legalize drugs (City Journal, Spring 1997) / Theodore Dalrymple
unit 4. America and the world
19. Is indefinite detention of suspected terrorists justified?
Yes : Long-term terrorist detention and a U.S. National Security Court (Legislating the war on terror : an agenda for reform, Brookings Inst. Press, 2009)
No : Legal, moral and national security consequences of 'prolonged detention' (Subcommittee on the Constitution of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, June 9. 2009) / Sarah H. Cleveland
20. Do we need to curb global warming?
Case closed : the debate about global warming is over (Issues in Governance Studies, June 2006) / Gregg Easterbrook
No : Climate of corruption : politics and power behind the global warming hoax (Greenleaf Book Group, 2011) / Larry Bell
21. Is warrantless wiretapping ever justified to protect national security?
Yes : How to 'connect the dots' (National Review, January 30, 2006)
No : Restoring the rule of law (from a speech presented to the American Constitution society for Law and Policy and the Liberty Coalition, January 15.2006) / Al Gore
22. Are entitlement programs creating a culture of dependency?
Yes : the rise of entitlements in modern America, 1960-2010 (Templeton Press, October 2012) / Nicholas Eberstadt
No : Have we become 'a nation of takers'? (Templeton Pr., 2012) / William a. Galston
23. Should the United States launch a preemptive strike against Iran?
Yes : Time to attack Iran (Foreign Affairs, January,February 2012)
No : Not time to attack Iran (Foreign Affairs, March, April 2012) / Colin H. Kahl.
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