Solutions to social problems
Subtitle: lessons from other societies
By: [edited by] D. Stanley Eitzen.
Contributors: Eitzen, D. Stanley.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780205698349
Subjects: Social problems; Social problems -- United States; Social policy; United States -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: U.S. social problems in comparative perspective / D. Stanley Eitzen (revised); title: The European social model / T. R. Reid; title: The Swedish welfare state / D. Stanley Eitzen (revised); title: How Canada stole the American dream / Duncan Hood (new); title: Poverty, work, and policy : the United States in comparative perspective / Gary Burtless and Timothy M. Smeeding (new); title: How other countries fight the war on poverty / Sid Ryan (new); title: Income and wealth inequality / Americans for Democratic Action (new); title: Inequality here and there / Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss; title: Europe crawls ahead / Megan Rowling; title: Gender equality in Sweden / Swedish Institute (new); title: Social shift opens door to gay marriage plan (canada) / Clifford Krauss; title: Gay rights and European citizenship / Joydeep Sengupta; title: As good as it gets : what country takes the best care of its older citizens? / Mike Edwards; title: We should rejoice in an ageing society, so long as we plan properly for it / Hamish McRae; title: We're not finnished with you yet / Gail Edmondson (new); title: Atlantic passages : how Europe supports working parents and their children / Janet C. Gornick (new); title: The father generation / Rainer Stumpf (new); title: Teen pregnancy : trends and lessons learned / Heather Boonstra (new); title: Early childhood education and care in advanced industrialized countries / Sheila B. Kamerman (new); title: Learning from South Korean schools / David J. Lynch (new); title: A world transformed : how other countries are preparing students for the interconnected world of the 21st century / Vivien Steward (new); title: The vanishing American vacation / Don Monkerud (new); title: A new WPA? / Ryan A. Dodd (new); title: International health systems / Physicians for a National Health Program; title: Has Canada got the cure? / Holly Dressel (new); title: New lessons from the old world / Jay Walljasper; title: I love Paris on a bus, a bike, a train and in anything but a car / Serge Schmemann (new); title: Flush with energy / Thomas L. Friedman (new); title: Scandinavia gets serious on global warming / Bruce E. Johansen (new); title: The $6.66-a gallon-solution / Simon Romero; title: Lawless, but gunless / Ken MacQueen (new); title: Reducing crime by harnessing international best practices / Irvin Waller and Brandon C. Welsh; title: Does Europe do it better : lessons from Holland, Britain, and Switzerland / Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter; title: Europe : curing, not punishing, addicts / Rick Steeves (new).