Amazon.com description: Product Description: Understanding Social Issues: Critical Thinking and Analysis, Fifth Edition offers students the opportunity to do meaningful research in a non-threatening way by analyzing statistical data provided in each of the fourteen modules. Utilizing an interactive workbook format, students are introduced to a number of interesting topics such as the value of a college education, and changing immigration patterns in the United States. In each module, students are asked to think about how each of these problems impacts society and may affect them personally. By answering these types of questions, they come to understand that social issues are not made up of abstract concepts. The workbook-style approach helps instructors judge how well students grasp the research process by evaluating the answers students give in the exercise section of each module.