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SOCIAL PROBLEMS
by EITZENEdition:
6th
ISBN13:
9780205138418
ISBN10:
0205138411
Pub. Date:
1/1/1994
Publisher(s):
Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
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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
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Key Terms | |
| Websites for Further Reference | |
| Problems Of People, The Environment, and Location | |
| World Population and Global Inequality | |
| World Population Growth | |
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