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