Conflicting Interests Readings in Social Problems and Inequality

Name: Conflicting Interests Readings in Social Problems and Inequality
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ISBN: 9780195375077

ISBN-10: 0195375076

ISBN-13: 9780195375077

Edition: 2009

Authors: Robert Heiner

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A concise, affordable, cutting-edge collection of articles that take a critical constructionist approach to social problems.Featuring 26 in-depth and engaging articles, this reader is an ideal supplement to editor Robert Heiner's textbook, Social Problems: An Introduction to Critical Constructionism, Third Edition. This unique anthology is the only social problems reader in which the majority of the selections reflectthe conflict perspective; this approach views social problems as the consequence of social and economic inequalities and therefore encourages students to critically analyze American public policy responses to social problems. Conflicting Interests is organized into five…

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List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.25" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.188



Preface



Thinking about Social Problems



The Sociological Imagination: The Promise




Constructing Social Problems




An Introduction to the Sociology of Social Problems




The Problem of Journalism




The Economics of Inequality



The Governing Class




The New Economic Insecurity




The Copenhagen Consensus




Global Inequality and the Challenges of Reducing Extreme Poverty




Social Inequalities



Women and Wealth: A Primer




The Payoff from Women's Rights




Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap




School Finance: Inequality Persists




Double Standards in Health Care




Problems of the Family



The Way We Wish We Were: Defining the Family Crisis




Striking a Balance




More than Welcome: Families Come First in Sweden




Life without Children




Crime and Drugs



The Implicit Ideology of Criminal Justice




Schools and Prisons: How Far Have We Come since Brown v. Board of Education?




The Growth of Incarceration in the Netherlands




First, Reduce Harm




Rx Drugs, 60 Minutes



Problems of the Environment



Reversal of Fortune




The Establishment vs. the Environment




The Wealth of the Poor: Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty, World Resources Institute



Differential Vulnerabilities: Environmental and Economic Inequality and Government Responses to Unnatural Disasters