Conflicting interests
Subtitle: readings in social problems and inequality
By: Robert Heiner.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780195375077
Subjects: Social problems; Equality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The sociological imagination : the promise; title: Constructing social problems; title: An introduction to the sociology of social problems; title: The problem of journalism; title: The governing class; title: The new economic insecurity; title: The Copenhagen consensus; title: Global inequality and the challenges of reducing extreme poverty; title: Women and wealth : a primer; title: The payoff from women's rights; title: Doubly divided : the racial wealth gap; title: School finance : inequality persists; title: Double standards in health care; title: The way we wish we were : defining the family crisis; title: Striking a balance; title: More than welcome : families come first in Sweden; title: Life without children; title: The implicit ideology of criminal justice; title: Schools and prisons : how far have we come since Brown v. Board of Education?; title: The growth of incarceration in the Netherlands; title: First, reduce harm; title: Rx drugs; title: Reversal of fortune; title: The establishment vs. the environment; title: The wealth of the poor : managing ecosystems to fight poverty.