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Social Problems: Continuity and Change
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Social Problems: Continuity and Change is a realistic but motivating look at the many issues that are facing our society today. As this book’s subtitle, Continuity and Change, implies, social problems are persistent, but they have also improved in the past and can be improved in the present and future, provided that our nation has the wisdom and will to address them.

https://doi.org/10.24926/8668.2301
ISBN: 978-1-946135-23-0

Language
English
ISBN
978-1-946135-23-0
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table Of Contents
Publisher Information
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: Understanding Social Problems
1.1 What Is a Social Problem?
1.2 Sociological Perspectives on Social Problems
1.3 Continuity and Change in Social Problems
1.4 Doing Research on Social Problems
1.5 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 2: Poverty
2.1 The Measurement and Extent of Poverty
2.2 Who the Poor Are: Social Patterns of Poverty
2.3 Explaining Poverty
2.4 The Consequences of Poverty
2.5 Global Poverty
2.6 Reducing Poverty
2.7 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 3: Racial and Ethnic Inequality
3.3 Prejudice
3.4 Discrimination
3.5 Dimensions of Racial and Ethnic Inequality
3.6 Explaining Racial and Ethnic Inequality
3.7 Reducing Racial and Ethnic Inequality
3.8 End-of-Chapter Material
3.1 Racial and Ethnic Inequality: A Historical Prelude
3.2 The Meaning of Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 4: Gender Inequality
4.1 Understanding Sex and Gender
4.2 Feminism and Sexism
4.3 Dimensions of Gender Inequality
4.4 Violence against Women: Rape and Sexual Assault
4.5 The Benefits and Costs of Being Male
4.6 Reducing Gender Inequality
4.7 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 5: Sexual Orientation and Inequality
5.1 Understanding Sexual Orientation
5.2 Public Attitudes about Sexual Orientation
5.3 Inequality Based on Sexual Orientation
5.4 Improving the Lives of the LGBT Community
5.5 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 6: Aging and Ageism
6.5 Problems Facing Older Americans
6.6 Reducing Ageism and Helping Older Americans
6.7 End-of-Chapter Material
6.1 The Concept and Experience of Aging
6.2 Perspectives on Aging
6.3 Life Expectancy and the Graying of Society
6.4 Biological and Psychological Aspects of Aging
Chapter 7: Alcohol and Other Drugs
7.1 Drug Use in History
7.2 Drugs and Drug Use Today
7.3 Social Patterning of Drug Use
7.4 Explaining Drug Use
7.5 Drug Policy and the War on Illegal Drugs
7.6 Addressing the Drug Problem and Reducing Drug Use
7.7 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 8: Crime and Criminal Justice
8.1 The Problem of Crime
8.2 Types of Crime
8.3 Who Commits Crime?
8.4 Explaining Crime
8.5 The Criminal Justice System
8.6 Reducing Crime
8.7 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 9: Sexual Behavior
9.6 End-of-Chapter Material
9.1 An Overview of Heterosexuality
9.2 Teenage Sex and Pregnancy
9.3 Abortion
9.4 Prostitution
9.5 Pornography
Chapter 10: The Changing Family
10.1 Overview of the Family
10.2 Sociological Perspectives on the Family
10.3 Changes and Problems in American Families
10.4 Families in the Future
10.5 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 11: Schools and Education
11.1 An Overview of Education in the United States
11.2 Sociological Perspectives on Education
11.3 Issues and Problems in Elementary and Secondary Education
11.4 Issues and Problems in Higher Education
11.5 Improving Schools and Education
11.6 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 12: Work and the Economy
12.1 Overview of the Economy
12.2 Sociological Perspectives on Work and the Economy
12.3 Problems in Work and the Economy
12.4 Improving Work and the Economy
12.5 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 13: Health and Health Care
13.5 Improving Health and Health Care
13.6 End-of-Chapter Material
13.1 Sociological Perspectives on Health and Health Care
13.2 Global Aspects of Health and Health Care
13.3 Problems of Health in the United States
13.4 Problems of Health Care in the United States
Chapter 14: Urban and Rural Problems
14.1 A Brief History of Urbanization
14.2 Sociological Perspectives on Urbanization
14.3 Problems of Urban Life
14.4 Problems of Rural Life
14.5 Improving Urban and Rural Life
14.6 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 15: Population and the Environment
15.1 Sociological Perspectives on Population and the Environment
15.2 Population
15.3 The Environment
15.4 Addressing Population Problems and Improving the Environment
15.5 End-of-Chapter Material
Chapter 16: War and Terrorism
16.1 Sociological Perspectives on War and Terrorism
16.2 War
16.3 Terrorism
16.4 Preventing War and Stopping Terrorism
16.5 End-of-Chapter Material
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