Books by Leonard Beeghley

Leonard Beeghley uses historical and international data to develop explanations for changes in the way women and men organize their lives together. He discusses how gender relations and family life affect and are affected by changes in premarital sex, abortion, divorce, and employment and income.

Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding these issues.

Focusing on four issues - premarital sex, abortion, divorce, and employment and income - this book discusses how gender roles and family life in the USA affect and are affected by changes in each. The key to the analysis is the distinction between individual and structural levels of explanation.

Angles of Vision is a compact text that provides students with basic information about social problems and teaches them a strategy for understanding these issues. Students learn how to distinguish be

The American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations. This work focuses on one important phenomenon to explain larger currents in American society. It examines the historical and cross-national dimensions of homicides and evaluates attempts to explain it.