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Social Problems

by: Eitzen, D. Stanley; Baca Zinn, Maxine; Smith, Kelly Eitzen

Social Problems

by: Eitzen, D. Stanley; Baca Zinn, Maxine; Smith, Kelly Eitzen

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0205449697
Edition: 10th
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Copyright: 06/08/2010
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

Taking a conflict approach, Eitzen and Baca Zinn focus on the underlying features of the social world in an effort to help students to understand today's social problems.

Preface

Acknowledgments

xiv

PART ONE Political Economy of Social Problems

Sociological Approach to Social Problems

(20)

History of Social Problems Theory

(1)

Toward a Definition of Social Problems

(3)

Types of Social Problems

(4)

Norm Violations

(1)

Social Conditions

(3)

The Sociological Imagination

(1)

Social Structure as the Basic Unit of Analysis

(4)

Person-Blame Approach versus System-Blame Approach

(2)

Reasons for Focusing on the System-Blame Approach

(1)

Organization of the Book

(1)

Chapter Review

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

(2)

Wealth and Power: The Bias of the System

(33)

Capitalism and Socialism

(4)

Capitalism

(2)

Socialism

(2)

U.S. Economy: Concentration of Corporate Wealth

(10)

Monopolistic Capitalism

(3)

Transnational Corporations

(2)

Concentration of Wealth

(4)

Political System: Links between Wealth and Power

(4)

Government by Interest Groups

(1)

Financing of Political Campaigns

(3)

Candidate Selection Process

(1)

Bias of the Political System

(10)

Consequences of Concentrated Power

(3)

Subsidies to Big Business

(1)

Trickle-Down Solutions

(1)

The Powerless Bear the Burden

(1)

Foreign Policy for Corporate Benefit

(1)

Reprise: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

(2)

Chapter Review

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

(3)

PART TWO Problems of People, the Environment, and Location

World Population and Global Inequality

(25)

World Population Growth

(8)

Demographic Transition

(2)

Family Planning

(2)

Societal Changes

(1)

Poverty

(7)

Food and Hunger

(2)

Sickness and Disease

(1)

The New Slavery

(2)

Concentration of Misery in Cities

(1)

U.S. Relations with the Developing World

(6)

Transnational Corporations

(3)

United States in the Global Village

(2)

Chapter Review

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

(3)

Threats to the Environment

(32)

Worldwide Environmental Problems

(10)

Degradation of the Land

(1)

Environmental Pollution and Degradation

(6)

Global Environmental Crises

(5)

Fossil Fuel Dependence, Waste, and Environmental Degradation

(2)

Destruction of the Tropical Rain Forests and Other Forms of Deforestation

(2)

Global Warming

(1)

Sources of U.S. Environmental Problems

(8)

Cultural Sources

(4)

Structural Sources

102

(3)

Solutions to the Environmental Crises

105

(4)

Pro-Business Voluntaristic Approach

105

(1)

Egalitarian/Authoritarian Plan

105

(2)

Control of Resource Use

107

(2)

International Implications of Environmental Problems

109

(1)

Chapter Review

110

(1)

Key Terms

110

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

111

(2)

Demographic Changes in the United States: The Browning and Graying of Society

113

(32)

Profile of the U.S. Population

113

(1)

New Immigration and the Changing Racial Landscape

114

(11)

Immigration and Increasing Diversity

116

(3)

Consequences of the New Immigration

119

(4)

Immigration and Agency

123

(1)

Effects of Immigration on Immigrants: Ethnic Identity or Assimilation?

124

(1)

The Aging Society

125

(6)

Demographic Trend

126

(1)

Demographic Portrait of the Current Elderly Population

126

(5)

Problems of an Aging Society

131

(9)

Social Security

131

(3)

Paying for Health Care

134

(2)

Elderly Abuse

136

(4)

Responses by the Elderly: Human Agency

140

(2)

Chapter Review

142

(1)

Key Terms

142

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

143

(2)

Problems of Place: Urban, Suburban, and Rural

145

(37)

Urban Problems

145

(17)

Urban Job Loss

146

(1)

Disinvestment

147

(3)

Federal Abandonment

150

(1)

Urban Poverty

150

(2)

Urban Housing Crisis

152

(4)

Decaying Infrastructure

156

(1)

Transportation, Pollution, and the Environment

156

(3)

Health and Health Care

159

(1)

Urban Schools

160

(1)

Crime, Drugs, and Gangs

160

(2)

Suburban Problems

162

(5)

Suburban Sprawl

163

(3)

Automobile Dependency

166

(1)

Social Isolation in the Suburbs

166

(1)

Rural Problems

167

(10)

Poverty

168

(2)

Jobs in Rural Areas

170

(2)

Environment

172

(1)

Health Care and Delivery

173

(1)

Small Town Decline

174

(1)

Crime and Illicit Drugs

175

(2)

Chapter Review

177

(1)

Key Terms

178

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

179

(3)

PART THREE Problems of Inequality

Poverty

182

(34)

Extent of Poverty

182

(9)

Racial Minorities

184

(1)

Nativity

185

(1)

Gender

185

(1)

Age

186

(1)

Place

186

(2)

The New Poor

188

(1)

The Working Poor

189

(1)

The Near Poor

190

(1)

The Severely Poor

190

(1)

Myths about Poverty

191

(4)

Refusal to Work

191

(1)

Welfare Dependency

191

(3)

The Poor Get Special Advantages

194

(1)

Welfare Is an African American and Latino Program

195

(1)

Costs of Poverty

195

(3)

Causes of Poverty

198

(7)

Deficiency Theory I: Innate Inferiority

202

(1)

Deficiency Theory II: Cultural Inferiority

203

(1)

Structural Theories

203

(2)

Elimination of Poverty

205

(7)

Chapter Review

212

(1)

Key Terms

213

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

213

(3)

Racial and Ethnic Inequality

216

(31)

How to Think about Racial and Ethnic Inequality

216

(1)

Racial and Ethnic Minorities

217

(11)

Racial Categories

219

(5)

Differences among Ethnic Groups

224

(4)

Explanations of Racial and Ethnic Inequality

228

(4)

Deficiency Theories

229

(1)

Bias Theories

229

(1)

Structural Discrimination Theories

230

(2)

Discrimination against African Americans and Latinos: Continuity and Change

232

(7)

Income

233

(1)

Education

234

(2)

Unemployment

236

(1)

Type of Employment

237

(1)

Health

238

(1)

Contemporary Trends and Issues in U.S. Racial and Ethnic Relations

239

(4)

Growing Racial Strife

239

(1)

More Racially Based Groups and Activities

240

(1)

Economic Polarization in U.S. Inner Cities

241

(1)

Racial Policies in the New Century

242

(1)

Chapter Review

243

(1)

Key Terms

244

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

244

(3)

Gender Inequality

247

(38)

Women and Men Are Differentiated and Ranked

247

(5)

Is Gender Biological or Social?

249

(1)

Gender and Power

250

(1)

What Causes Gender Inequality?

251

(1)

Socialization versus Structure: Two Approaches to Gender Inequality

252

(1)

Learning Gender

252

(8)

Children at Home

253

(1)

Children at Play

254

(2)

Formal Education

256

(4)

Socialization as Blaming the Victim

260

(1)

Reinforcing Male Dominance

260

(8)

Language

260

(1)

Interpersonal Behavior

261

(1)

Mass Communications Media

262

(2)

Religion

264

(2)

The Law

266

(1)

Politics

267

(1)

Structured Gender Inequality

268

(9)

Occupational Distribution

269

(2)

The Earnings Gap

271

(3)

Intersection of Race and Gender in the Workplace

274

(1)

Pay Equity

274

(1)

How Workplace Inequality Operates

275

(1)

Gender in the Global Economy

276

(1)

Costs and Consequences of Sexism

277

(3)

Who Benefits?

277

(1)

Social and Individual Costs

277

(3)

Fighting the System

280

(1)

Feminist Movements in the United States

280

(1)

Women's Struggles in the Twenty-First Century

281

(1)

Chapter Review

281

(1)

Key Terms

282

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

282

(3)

Sexual Orientation

285

(27)

Social Deviance

285

(4)

Gay and Lesbian Community: An Overview

289

(4)

Defining Homosexuality

289

(1)

Roots of Homosexuality

289

(1)

Numbers: How Many Gays and Lesbians?

290

(1)

Interpersonal Relationships and Domestic Arrangements among Gays and Lesbians

291

(2)

Discrimination

293

(13)

Ideological Oppression

293

(6)

Legal Oppression: The Law, the Courts, and the Police

299

(5)

Occupational Discrimination

304

(2)

Fighting the System: Human Agency

306

(3)

Chapter Review

309

(1)

Key Terms

309

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

310

(2)

Disability and Ableism

312

(27)

Definitions

312

(4)

Individual Model of Disability

313

(1)

Social Model of Disability

314

(1)

Toward a More Complete Definition of Disability

315

(1)

People with Disabilities as a Minority Group

316

(6)

Defined as Different

316

(1)

Naming

316

(1)

Minority as a Master Status

317

(1)

Categorization, Stigma, and Stereotypes

317

(2)

Exclusion and Segregation

319

(1)

Matrix of Domination

320

(1)

Discrimination

321

(1)

Issues of Gender, Sexual Behavior, and Fertility

322

(6)

Gender Stereotyping

322

(1)

Sexual Relationships

322

(4)

Physical and Sexual Abuse

326

(1)

Abortion Issue

326

(2)

Agency

328

(6)

Disability Rights Movement

328

(2)

Americans with Disabilities Act

330

(4)

Conclusion

334

(1)

Chapter Review

335

(1)

Key Terms

335

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

336

(3)

PART FOUR Social Structure and Individual Deviance

Crime and Justice

339

(39)

Crime in Society

339

(20)

What Is Crime?

339

(3)

Crime Rates

342

(4)

Demographic Characteristics of People Arrested for Crimes

346

(3)

Categories of Crime

349

(10)

Unjust System of Justice

359

(13)

Laws

360

(1)

Police

361

(1)

Judicial Process

362

(6)

Correctional System

368

(4)

Unjust Imposition of the Label ``Criminal''

372

(2)

Chapter Review

374

(1)

Key Terms

375

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

375

(3)

Drugs

378

(34)

The Politics of Drugs

379

(5)

Historical Legality of Drugs

379

(2)

Factors Influencing Drug Laws and Enforcement

381

(3)

Drug Use in U.S. Society

384

(15)

Commonly Abused Illegal Drugs

385

(3)

Legal but Dangerous Drugs

388

(4)

Drug Use Patterns by Class, Race, and Gender

392

(2)

Learning to Use Drugs: The Impact of Social Factors

394

(2)

Why Use Drugs?

396

(3)

U.S. Official Policy: A War on Drugs

399

(5)

Consequences of Official Drug Policies

400

(2)

Is the Drug War Racist?

402

(2)

Alternatives

404

(4)

Regulation of Trade or Use through Licensing and Taxation

404

(1)

Noninterference

405

(3)

Chapter Review

408

(1)

Key Terms

409

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

409

(3)

PART FIVE Institutional Problems

Work

412

(33)

Problems of Work

412

(14)

Control of Workers

412

(2)

Alienation

414

(1)

Dangerous Working Conditions

415

(3)

Sweatshops

418

(1)

Unions and Their Decline

419

(2)

Discrimination in the Workplace: Perpetuation of Inequality

421

(3)

Unemployment

424

(2)

Globalization and the Structural Transformation of the Economy

426

(4)

Globalization

426

(2)

Structural Transformation of the Economy: From Manufacturing to Services

428

(2)

Age of Discontinuity

430

(9)

Changing Nature of Jobs

430

(2)

Job Insecurity

432

(1)

Increased Workload

433

(1)

Worker Compensation

434

(4)

Demography and Jobs

438

(1)

Changing Economy, Demography, and the Future of Work

438

(1)

Transformation of the Economy and the Bifurcation of the United States

439

(2)

Chapter Review

441

(1)

Key Terms

442

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

442

(3)

Families

445

(34)

The Mythical Family in the United States

445

(2)

Families in Contemporary U.S. Society: The Family in Capitalism

447

(1)

Stratification and Family Life: Unequal Life Chances

448

(7)

Structural Transformation and Family Life

451

(2)

Changing Composition of Households and Families

453

(2)

Parents and Children

455

(9)

Social Supports for Working Parents

455

(4)

Single Parents and Their Children

459

(4)

Societal Response to Disadvantaged Children

463

(1)

Divorce

464

(4)

Consequences of Divorce

465

(2)

Children and Divorce

467

(1)

Violence in U.S. Families

468

(6)

Violence and the Social Organization of the Family

468

(1)

Spouse Abuse

469

(2)

Child Abuse and Neglect

471

(3)

Chapter Review

474

(1)

Key Terms

475

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

476

(3)

Education

479

(32)

Characteristics of Education in the United States

479

(7)

Education as a Conserving Force

479

(1)

Mass Education

480

(1)

Local Control of Education

481

(1)

Competitive Nature of U.S. Education

481

(4)

``Sifting'' and ``Sorting'' Function of Schools

485

(1)

Preoccupation with Order and Control

485

(1)

Education and Inequality

486

(13)

Financing Public Education

488

(3)

Family Economic Resources

491

(1)

Higher Education and Stratification

492

(2)

Curriculum

494

(2)

Segregation

496

(1)

Tracking and Teachers' Expectations

496

(3)

Possibilities for Promoting Equality of Opportunity

499

(8)

Restructuring Society

507

(1)

Chapter Review

507

(1)

Key Terms

508

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

508

(3)

Health and Health Care Delivery

511

(28)

The Crisis in Health Care: Cost and Coverage

511

(2)

Rising Health Care Costs

511

(1)

The Uninsured and Underinsured

512

(1)

Unequal Access to Health Care

513

(12)

Social Class

513

(4)

Race

517

(3)

Gender

520

(4)

Class, Race, and Gender: Who Wins and Who Loses in the Battle against HIV/AIDS?

524

(1)

Changing Social Organization of Health Care Delivery

525

(6)

Fee-for-Service System

525

(1)

Shift to Managed Care

526

(3)

Shift from Private to For-Profit Hospitals

529

(2)

Toward a Better Health Care System: Some Alternatives

531

(3)

Reforms within the Medical Community

531

(1)

National Health Insurance

532

(2)

Societal Changes

534

(1)

Chapter Review

534

(1)

Key Terms

535

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

536

(3)

National Security in the Twenty-First Century: The War on Terror

539

(33)

A War like No Other

540

(3)

U.S. Military Establishment

543

(2)

How Big Is the U.S. Military?

544

(1)

U.S. National Security Policy and the War on Terror

545

(5)

The Bush Doctrine

546

(3)

Homeland Security: The Bush Doctrine II

549

(1)

Consequences of the Bush Doctrine and Bush Doctrine II

550

(11)

Should the United States Destabilize International Law, or Promote It?

550

(2)

Should the United States Become a Fortress Society?

552

(3)

Can We Claim the Moral High Ground?

555

(2)

How Should the War on Terror Change Our Government's Spending Priorities?

557

(2)

What about Domestic Terrorists?

559

(2)

New Cornerstones of Policy for Twenty-First-Century National Security

561

(7)

Why Do They Hate Us?

562

(1)

How to Win the War on Terror

563

(5)

Chapter Review

568

(1)

Key Terms

569

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

569

(3)

PART SIX Solutions

Progressive Plan to Solve Society's Social Problems

572

(20)

Sociology, Social Problems, and Social Change

573

(3)

Sociological Paradox: Structure and Agency

573

(1)

Sociological Dilemma: Recognition and Rejection

574

(2)

Progressive Principles to Guide Public Policy

576

(6)

Is a Progressive Social Policy Possible?

582

(4)

Should a Progressive Plan Be Adopted by U.S. Society?

582

(1)

Financing the Progressive Agenda

582

(1)

Is There Any Hope of Instituting a Social Agenda Based on Progressive Principles?

583

(3)

Human Agency: Social Change from the Bottom Up

586

(3)

Individuals Protesting and Organizing for Change

587

(2)

Chapter Review

589

(1)

Key Terms

589

(1)

Websites for Further Reference

590

(2)

Bibliography

592

(32)

Name Index

624

(5)

Subject Index

629

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