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| Preface | |
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| The Sociology of Social Problems | |
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| Definitions and Solutions | |
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| The Four Elements of a Social Problem | |
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| The Role of the Social Scientist | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Guiding Principles for Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Examples of Sociological Perspectives: The Individual in Modern Society | |
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| Functionalists: Social Situations Create Individuals' Problems | |
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| Conflict Theorists: Powerlessness and Alienation | |
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| Interactionists: Searching for Meaningful Identities | |
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| Postmodernism: A Break with the Past | |
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| Adolescent and Young Adult Suicide | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Population and the Environment | |
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| Population in a Sociohistorical Context | |
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| Population Pressure on the World | |
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| The Loss of Forests, Plants, and Animals | |
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| World Hunger | |
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| The Ecosystem | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Cities and Urban Dwellers | |
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| U.S. Cities in Sociohistorical Context | |
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| Urban Change in the United States | |
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| Housing Problems and Solutions | |
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| Political Fragmentation | |
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| Can Snowbelt Cities Compete with Sunbelt Cities? | |
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| Urban-Suburban Interdependence | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Power, Work, and the Workplace | |
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| Work in Sociohistorical Context | |
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| Corporate Power | |
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| The Military-Industrial Complex | |
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| Work in the United States | |
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| Occupational Health and Safety | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Poverty and Social Class | |
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| Poverty in Sociohistorical Context | |
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| Blaming the Poor | |
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| The Nature of Poverty | |
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| Who are the Poor? | |
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| The Impact of Poverty | |
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| Work and Welfare | |
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| Eliminating Poverty | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Gender Inequality and Heterosexism | |
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| The Sociohistorical Context | |
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| The Biological Argument | |
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| Homosexuality in the United States | |
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| Socialization and Sexism | |
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| Arenas of Change | |
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| The Social Construction of Maleness | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Race and Ethnic Relations | |
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| The Sociohistorical Context | |
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| Dimensions of the Problem | |
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| Institutional Discrimination | |
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| Minority Groups Today | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Crime and Violence | |
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| Crime, Laws, and Prosecution | |
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| Measuring the Extent of Crime | |
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| How Much Crime Really Exists? | |
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| Violence in the United States | |
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| Violent Crime | |
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| Organized Crime | |
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| White-Collar Crime | |
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| Property Crime | |
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| Juvenile Delinquency | |
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| The Criminal Justice System | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Futuree | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Family | |
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| Family in Sociohistorical Context | |
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| The Scope of Family Problems | |
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| Divorce | |
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| Changes in Family Structure | |
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| Violence and Abuse | |
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| Sexual Violence and Victimization in the Family | |
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| The Need for Societal Intervention | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Health Care | |
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| Health Care in Sociohistorical Context | |
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| The Social Organization of Health Care | |
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| Bioethics: Life and Death Discussions | |
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| The Aids Epidemic | |
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| Mental Health | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Problems in Education | |
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| Education in Sociohistorical Context | |
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| The School is a Bureaucracy | |
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| Education and Social Class | |
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| Education Problem Areas | |
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| A Question of Quality | |
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| How Else Can We Improve Education? | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Alcohol and Drug Abuse | |
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| Alcohol | |
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| Cocaine and Crack | |
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| Marijuana | |
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| Narcotics | |
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| Tobacco | |
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| Social Consequences of Drug Use | |
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| Social Control and Solution Attempts | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Sexual Behavior | |
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| The Cross-Cultural Context | |
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| Changing U.S. Patterns of Sexual Behavior | |
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| Pornography | |
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| Prostitution | |
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| Child Molestation | |
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| Sociological Perspectives | |
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| Thinking About the Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |