Social Problems
by Eitzen, D. Stanley; Baca Zinn, Maxine; Smith, Kelly EitzenEdition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-01-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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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.
Table of Contents
| Brief* For Comprehensive, see below | |
| Political Economy of Social Problems | |
| Sociological Approach to Social Problems | |
| Wealth and Power: the Bias of the System | |
| Problems of People, the Environment, and Location | |
| World Population and Global Inequality | |
| Threats to the Environment | |
| Demographic Changes in the United States: the Browning and Graying of Society | |
| Problems of Place: Urban, Suburban, and Rural | |
| Problems of Inequality | |
| Poverty | |
| Racial and Ethnic Inequality | |
| Gender Inequality | |
| Sexual Orientation | |
| Disability and Ableism | |
| Social Structure and Individual Deviance | |
| Crime and Justice | |
| Drugs | |
| Institutional Problems | |
| Work | |
| Families | |
| Education | |
| Health and Health Care Delivery | |
| National Security in the Twenty-First Century | |
| Solutions | |
| Progressive Plan to solve Society's Social Problems | |
| Full | |
| Political Economy of Social Problems | |
| Sociological Approach to Social Problems | |
| History of Social Problems | |
| Theory Toward a Definition of Social Problems | |
| Types of Social Problems | |
| Norm Violations Social Conditions | |
| The Sociological Imagination | |
| Social Structure as the Basic Unit of Analysis | |
| Person-Blame Approach versus System-Blame Approach | |
| Reasons for Focusing on the System-Blame Approach | |
| Organization of the Book | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Key Terms Websites for | |
| Further Reference | |
| Wealth and Power | |
| The Bias of the System Capitalism and Socialism | |
| Capitalism Socialism U.S. Economy | |
| Concentration of Corporate Wealth Monopolistic | |
| Capitalism Transnational Corporations Concentration of Wealth Political System | |
| Links between Wealth and Power Government by Interest Groups | |
| Financing of Political Campaigns | |
| Candidate Selection Process | |
| Bias of the Political System | |
| Consequences of Concentrated | |
| Power Subsidies to Big Business | |
| Trickle-Down Solutions | |
| The Powerless Bear the Burden | |
| Foreign Policy for Corporate Benefit Reprise | |
| The Best Democracy Money Can Buy | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Key Terms | |
| Websites for Further Reference | |
| Problems of People, the Environment, and Location | |
| World Population and Global Inequality | |
| World Population | |
| Growth Demographic Transition | |
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