Conflicting Interests : Readings in Social Problems and Inequality
ISBN: 9780195375077 | 0195375076
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/5/2009
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Featuring twenty-six in-depth and engaging articles, Conflicting Interests: Readings in Social Problems and Inequality is a unique social problems reader in which the majority of the selections reflect the conflict perspective. This approach views social problems as the consequence of social and economic inequalities and therefore encourages students to critically analyze American public policy responses to social problems. Conflicting Interests is organized into five sections: Thinking about Social Problems, The Economics of Inequality, Social... MORE
| Preface | |
| Thinking about Social Problems | |
| The Sociological Imagination: The Promise | |
| Constructing Social Problems | |
| An Introduction to the Sociology of Social Problems | |
| The Problem of Journalism | |
| The Economics of Inequality | |
| The Governing Class | |
| The New Economic Insecurity | |
| The Copenhagen Consensus | ... MORE |
| Global Inequality and the Challenges of Reducing Extreme Poverty | |
| Social Inequalities | |
| Women and Wealth: A Primer | |
| The Payoff from Women's Rights | |
| Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap | |
| School Finance: Inequality Persists | |
| Double Standards in Health Care | |
| Problems of the Family | |
| The Way We Wish We Were: Defining the Family Crisis | |
| Striking a Balance | |
| More than Welcome: Families Come First in Sweden | |
| Life without Children | |
| Crime and Drugs | |
| The Implicit Ideology of Criminal Justice | |
| Schools and Prisons: How Far Have We Come since Brown v. Board of Education? | |
| The Growth of Incarceration in the Netherlands | |
| First, Reduce Harm | |
| Rx Drugs, 60 Minutes | |
| Problems of the Environment | |
| Reversal of Fortune | |
| The Establishment vs. the Environment | |
| The Wealth of the Poor: Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty, World Resources Institute | |
| Differential Vulnerabilities: Environmental and Economic Inequality and Government Responses to Unnatural Disasters | |
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