Taking sides
Subtitle: clashing views on controversial social issues
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Kurt Finsterbusch.
Contributors: Finsterbusch, Kurt, 1935-
Edition: 12th ed
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Social problems; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Part 1, Culture and values. Is America in moral decline? ; Does television violence make children significantly more violent? ; Is Third World immigration a threat to America's way of life?; title: Part 2, Sex roles, gender, and the family. Do the new sex roles burden women more than men? ; Are the communication problems between men and women largely due to radically different conversation styles? ; Should same-sex marriages be legally recognized? ; Is the decline of the traditional family a national crisis?; title: Part 3, Stratification and inequality. Is increasing economic inequality a serious problem? ; Is the underclass a major threat to American ideals? ; Has Affirmative Action outlived its usefulness?; title: Part 4, Political economy and institutions. Is government dominated by big business? ; Should government intervene in a capitalist economy? ; Has welfare reform benefited the poor? ; Is competition the solution to the ills of public education? ; Should doctor-assisted suicide be legalized for the terminally ill?; title: Part 5, Crime and social control. Is street crime more harmful than white-collar crime? ; Should drug use be decriminalized? ; Is capital punishment justified?; title: Part 6, The future: Population/Environment/Society. Is mankind dangerously harming the environment? ; Is globalization good for mankind?