William Kornblum conducts research on urban, social ecology, and community studies. Among his publications are: At Sea in the City: New York from the Water’s Edge; Blue Collar Community, a study of the steel mill neighborhoods of  South Chicago; Growing Up Poor and Uptown Kids, written with Terry Williams, and West 42nd Street, the Bright Lights, which  during the 1980s became a guide to understanding the street life of lower Times Square. He has served as a social scientist for the U.S. Department of Interior and worked on the development of national parks and environmental reserves in the nation's metropolitan regions. He is also the author of two popular undergraduate textbooks, Social Problems (Pearson) and Sociology in a Changing World (Wadsworth). Kornblum received his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago (1971) and his undergraduate degree in biology from Cornell (1961). He taught physics and chemistry as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ivory Coast (1962-63) and was on the faculty at the University of Washington before he came to the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1973.

Joseph Julian has a B.A. from San Francisco State University, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Sociology. He has taught a wide variety of courses, at the University of Washington, Kansas State University, the University of Nebraska, California State University, Bakersfield, and San Francisco State University. His administrative experience includes being a department chairman, an administrative fellow, an Associate Dean, Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at SFSU, and the first University Dean for Human Relations at SFSU. After nearly twenty years as a university administrator and a sabbatical leave, Dr. Julian returned to the classroom to teach sociology with a special emphasis on social problems. Dr. Julian's scholarly research includes studies at several Seattle hospitals, San Quentin prison and the Nebraska State Prison for Women, and have appeared in such journals as Sociological Quarterly, Social Forces, American Sociological Review, and Research Bulletin. Along with his publications, Dr. Julian has continued to present papers such as "Beyond Tolerance: Enhancing Diversity and Promoting Inclusiveness at San Francisco State University," read at the International Congress on Challenges to Education: Balancing Unity and Diversity in a Changing World in 1996 in Aruba, Dutch Caribbean. His community involvement includes service on a Citizen's Police Review Board, the Community Advisory Committee to the Mission Community College Center, the Institutional Review Board of Asian American Recovery Services, Inc., and the San Francisco-Manila Sister City Committee. He was a member of the San Francisco Ethics Commission, and is currently vice president of the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Commission.

2. Problems of Health and Healthcare

3. Problems of Mental Illness and Treatment        

4. Alcohol and Other Drugs          

5. Crime and Violence    

6. Poverty amid Affluence            

7. Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination                

8. Sex and Gender           

9. An Aging Society         

10. The Changing Family

11. Problems of Education           

12. Problems of Work and the Economy  

13. Population and Immigration 

14. Technology and the Environment       

15. Summing Up the Sociological Imagination: War and Global Insecurity

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