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Introduction to Social Problems
ISBN: 9780205297788 | 0205297781
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 9/1/1999
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Many serious social problems threaten the United States and the world. By studying these problems, students will gain the tools and the insight that will enable them to analyze problems and solutions on their own. Intended to be a training manual for the study of social problems, this book explores the nature and extent of social problems, documents the advances and setbacks that we as a society have made, and analyzes what works and what doesn't regarding solutions to today's problems. Students will study this constantly changing field by applying social science research to the solutions of some of the most difficult, agonizing, and controversial problems confronting the United States and the world today.
| Approaches to the Study of Social Problems | |
| What Is a Social Problem? Personal Troubles, Public Issues, and Social Problems | |
| The Social Context of Social Problems | |
| The Sociological Imagination | |
| Theoretical Perspectives on Social Problems | |
| The Functionalist Perspective | |
| The Conflict Perspective | |
| The Interactionist Perspective | |
| Using t... MORE | |
| Constructing Social Problems: The Mass Media and Other Influences | |
| Research on Social Problems | |
| The Scientific Method | |
| Values, Interest Groups, and Objectivity | |
| Applied Research: Untangling Myths and Facts about Social Problems | |
| Assessing Data: Problems and Pitfalls | |
| Future Prospects: Solving Social Problems | |
| What Can We Do about Social Problems? The Interplay of Social Policy and Research | |
| Who Provides Solutions? Policy Issues | |
| Domestic Violence: How to Intervene? Should We Solve the Problem? | |
| International Perspectives: Social Problems in Other Societies | |
| Growth of Corporate and Government Power | |
| Types of Economic Systems | |
| Capitalism | |
| Myths and Facts: About Business and Government | |
| Socialism | |
| Mixed Economies | |
| The Concentration of Economic and Political Power | |
| The Corporate Economy | |
| Unionization | |
| Big Government | |
| Perspectives on the Concentration of Power | |
| The Functionalist Perspective | |
| The Conflict Perspective | |
| International Perspectives: Global Economic Concentration | |
| Is There a Power Elite in the United States? | |
| Applied Research: The Power Elite, Corporate Mass Media, and Global Communications | |
| The World Economic System | |
| Problems Created by the Concentration of Power | |
| Effects on Competition | |
| Conflict Between Societal and Corporate Goals | |
| Threats to Democratic Institutions | |
| The Dwindling of Unions | |
| Worker Dislocation and Unemployment | |
| Abuse of Government Authority | |
| Future Prospects | |
| Reducing Government and Deficits | |
| Government Reorganization | |
| Collective Action by Citizens | |
| The Globalization of Labor | |
| Economic Reorganization | |
| Policy Issues: Should the Government Take the Lead in U.S | |
| Reindustrialization? | |
| Family-Related Problems | |
| The Family in Society | |
| The Functionalist Perspective | |
| Myths and Facts: About the Family | |
| The Conflict Perspective | |
| Applied Research: Day Care: Problem or Solution? The Interactionist Perspective | |
| Attitudes Toward Marriage and the Family | |
| Divorce | |
| The Divorce Rate | |
| Who Gets Divorced? The Effects of Divorce | |
| Emerging Family Lifestyles | |
| Dual-Earner Families | |
| Singlehood | |
| Cohabitation | |
| Single Parenthood | |
| A Global Perspective | |
| Violence in the Family | |
| Marital Violence | |
| Child Abuse | |
| Policy Issues: Should Gay and Lesbian Families Be Legitimized? Abuse of the Elderly | |
| Constructing Family Problems: Media Images. Future Prospects | |
| The Future of Divorce | |
| Reducing Family Violence | |
| Children and the Family | |
| International Perspectives: Families and Children in Other Societies | |
| Health and Illness | |
| Perspectives on Health Care | |
| The Functionalist Perspective | |
| Myths and Facts: About Health and Health Care | |
| The Conflict Perspective | |
| The Interactionist Perspective | |
| Politics, Stigma, and the AIDS Epidemic | |
| Health, Illness, and Society | |
| Applied Research: Combatting the Spread of AIDS | |
| Health and Societal Development | |
| Social Factors in Health and Illness | |
| Mental Illness | |
| The Nature of Mental Illness | |
| The Treatment of Mental Disorders | |
| Problems in Health Care | |
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