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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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| 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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