Handbook of social problems
Subtitle: a comparative international perspective
By: edited by George Ritzer.
Contributors: Ritzer, George.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 687
Subjects: Social problems.; Social problems -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Social problems : a comparative international perspective / George Ritzer; title: Theoretical issues in the study of social problems and deviance / Joel Best; title: Methodological issues in the study of social problems / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln; title: Social problems and public policy / Tim Blackman, Teeside and Roberta Woods; title: Social Problems. Population change / Sonalde Desai; title: Ecological problems / Steven Yearley; title: Global inequality / Salvatore J. Babones and Jonathan H. Turner; title: Racism in comparative perspective / Joe R. Feagin and Pinar Batura; title: Ethnic conflict as a global social problem / Thomas D. Hall and Lester M. Jones; title: Gender inequality / Amy S. Wharton; title: Urban problems in global perspective / Chigon Kim and Mark Gottdiener; title: Work-related social problems / Teresa A. Sullivan; title: The media and social problems / Douglas Kellner; title: Consumption as a social problem / Douglas J. Goodman; title: Family problems in global perspective / Felix M. Berardo and Constance L. Shehan; title: Racial and ethnic educational inequality in global perspective / Caroline Hodges Persell, Richard Arum, and Kathryn Seufert; title: Health as a social problem / William C. Cockerham; title: How medical care systems become social problems / Andrew Twaddle; title: Aids as a social problem : the creation of social pariahs in the management of an epidemic / Bronwen Lichtenstein; title: War, militarism and national security / Ian Roxborough; title: Sea change : the modern terrorist environment in perspective / Gus Martin; title: The geopolitics of mass destruction : how genocide became a global social problem / David Norman Smith; title: Globalization / John Boli; title: Technology and social problems / Frank Webster and Mark Erickson, Aston; title: The internet as a global social problem / Gili S. Drori; title: Risk / John Tulloch; title: Deviance. Crime / Michael Tonry; title: Juvenile delinquency / Mark C. Stafford; title: Drug use as a global social problem / Erich Goode; title: The sexual spectacle : making a public culture of sexual problems / Ken Plummer; title: Modern day folk devils and the problem of children's presence in the global sex trade / Julia O'Connell Davidson; title: Mental illness as a social problem / Howard B. Kaplan; title: Disability as a global issue / Gary L. Albrecht; title: Corruption as a global social problem / Gary LaFree and Nancy Morris.