Social Problems Readings with Four Questions

by Charon, Joel M.; Vigilant, Lee G.

• ISBN13: 9780495004608
• ISBN10: 049500460X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-03
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS. 1. Joel M. Charon, An Introduction to the Study of Social Problems. 2. Joseph R. Gusfield, How Do We Decide What Are Social Problems? 3. Joel Best, What's Wrong with Declaring War on Social Problems? 4. Robert W. Fuller, Somebodies and Nobodies: Rankism and What It Means. PART II: SOCIAL PROBLEMS: ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND POVERTY. 5. Jennifer L. Hochschild, What's Wrong with the American Dream? 6. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, The Have-Mores and Have-Lesses. 7. Katherine S. Newman, The Invisible Poor. 8. Robert Perrucci and Earl Wysong, The Global Economy, the Privileged Class, and the Working Class. 9. Thomas M. Shapiro, Inheritance and Privilege. 10. John Iceland, Poverty in the United States. PART III: SOCIAL PROBLEMS: WORK AND UNEMPLOYMENT. 11. Barry Schwartz, The Demaning of Work. 12. Eric Schlosser, Work in the Strawberry Fields. 13. Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello, Globalization and the Race to the Bottom. 14. Eric Schlosser, The Most Dangerous Job. 15. Griff Witte, The Vanishing Middle Class. PART IV: SOCIAL PROBLEMS: RACIAL AND ETHNIC INEQUALITY. 16. Lawrence D. Bobo and Ryan A. Smith, Laissez-Faire Racism. 17. Roberto Suro, Latino Lives in a Changing America. 18. William Julius Wilson, From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos. 19. Nathan McCall, The Revolution Is about Basketball. 20. Joe R. Feagin and Hernan Vera, Eliminating the Waste of Racism. PART V: SOCIAL PROBLEMS: GENDER INEQUALITY AND ISSUES IN SEXUAL ORIENTATION. 21. Barbara Risman, Socialization into Gender. 22. Sharon Hays, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood. 23. Susan Faludi, The Betrayal of the American Man. 24. Michael L. Penn and Rahel Nardos, Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls. 25. Sharon Hays, Flat Broke with Children. 26. Michael Bronski, Homosexuality and American Citizenship. PART VI: SOCIAL PROBLEMS: CRIME AND DRUGS. 27. Elliott Currie, The Possibilities for Crime Prevention. 28. Elijah Anderson, Violence and the Inner-City Code. 29. Stephen M. Rosoff, Henry N. Pontell, and Robert Tillman, White-Collar Crime. 30. Eva Bertram, Morris Blachman, Kenneth Sharp, and Peter Andreas, Three Fatal Flaws in the War on Drugs. 31. Jeremy Travis and Michelle Waul, From Prison to Home. PART VII: SOCIAL PROBLEMS RELATED THE THE FAMILY. 32. Elijah Anderson, Sex Codes and Family Life among Poor Inner-City Youths. 33. Kristin Luker, The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy. 34. Stephanie Coontz, Divorce in Perspective. 35. Maxine Baca Zinn and D. Stanley Eitzen, The Incidence and Causes of Wife Abuse. 36. Barbara Bergmann and Suszanne Helburn, What's Wrong with Child Care in America. PART VIII: SOCIAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO EDUCATION. 37. James Traub, What No School Can Do. 38. Jonathan Kozol, American Education: Savage Inequalities. 39. Barry Schwartz, The Debasing of Education. 40. Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, David Harding, Jal Mehta, and Wendy Roth, The Social Roots of School Shootings. 41. William G. Ouchi with Lydia G. Segal, Making Schools Work. PART IX: SOCIAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO HEALTH CARE. 42. Ronald W. Dworkin, The Cultural Revolution in Health Care. 43. Charles J. Dougherty, Protection of the Least Well-Off. 44. Grace Budrys, Health Care Costs and Cost Containment. 45. Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside, Why AIDS in Africa. PART X: SOCIAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, VIOLENCE, AND TERRORISM. 46 Charles Derber, Resurrecting a Civil Society. 47. Charles A. Reich, The Corporation as Invisible Government. 48 Ervin Staub, The Origins of Group Violence. 49. Mark Juergensmeyer, The Global Rise of Religious Violence. 50. Michael Ignatieff, Democracy in an Age of Terror. PART XI: SOCIAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT. 51. Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, The Elderly--A Demographic Tidal Wave. 52. Donella H. Meadows, Seeing the Population Issue Whole. 53. Michael Parenti, Ecology for the Money. 54. Allen Hammond, Three Views of the Future.

Table of Contents

Preface	x
PART I An Introduction to Social Problems	1	(36)
An Introduction to the Study of Social Problems	3	(8)
Joel M. Charon
How Do We Decide What Are Social Problems?	11	(7)
Joseph R. Gusfield
What's Wrong with Declaring War on Social Problems?	18	(10)
Joel Best
Somebodies and Nobodies: Rankism and What It Means	28	(9)
Robert W. Fuller
PART II Social Problems: Economic Inequality and Poverty	37	(72)
What's Wrong with the American Dream?	39	(11)
Jennifer L. Hochschild
The Have-Mores and Have-Lesses	50	(9)
Donald L. Barlett
James B. Steele
The Invisible Poor	59	(14)
Katherine S. Newman
The Global Economy, the Privileged Class, and the Working Class	73	(9)
Robert Perrucci
Earl Wysong
Inheritance and Privilege	82	(11)
Thomas M. Shapiro
Poverty in the United States	93	(16)
John Iceland
PART III Social Problems: Work and Unemployment	109	(44)
The Demeaning of Work	111	(8)
Barry Schwartz
Work in the Strawberry Fields	119	(8)
Eric Schlosser
Globalization and the Race to the Bottom	127	(8)
Jeremy Brecher
Tim Costello
The Most Dangerous Job	135	(8)
Eric Schlosser
The Vanishing Middle Class	143	(10)
Griff Witte
PART IV Social Problems: Racial and Ethnic Inequality	153	(46)
Laissez-Faire Racism	155	(10)
Lawrence D. Bobo
Ryan A. Smith
Latino Lives in a Changing America	165	(8)
Roberto Suro
From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos	173	(10)
William Julius Wilson
The Revolution Is about Basketball	183	(4)
Nathan McCall
Eliminating the Waste of Racism	187	(12)
Joe R. Feagin
Hernan Vera
PART V Social Problems: Gender Inequality and Issues in Sexual Orientation	199	(56)
Socialization into Gender	201	(8)
Barbara J. Risman
The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood	209	(13)
Sharon Hays
The Betrayal of the American Man	222	(6)
Susan Faludi
Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls	228	(10)
Michael L. Penn
Rahel Nardos
Flat Broke with Children	238	(11)
Sharon Hays
Homosexuality and American Citizenship	249	(6)
Michael Bronski
PART VI Social Problems: Crime and Drugs	255	(54)
The Possibilities for Crime Prevention	257	(9)
Elliott Currie
Violence and the Inner-City Code	266	(11)
Elijah Anderson
White-Collar Crime	277	(11)
Stephen M. Rosoff
Henry N. Pontell
Robert Tillman
Three Fatal Flaws in the War on Drugs	288	(10)
Eva Bertram
Morris Blachman
Kenneth Sharpe
Peter Andreas
From Prison to Home	298	(11)
Jeremy Travis
Michelle Waul
PART VII Social Problems Related to the Family	309
Sex Codes and Family Life Among Poor Inner-City Youths	311	(13)
Elijah Anderson
The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy	324
Kristin Luker