The changing world--social problems and alternatives
Subtitle: Critical views
Publisher: Copley Pub. Group
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Action, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780874113921
Subjects: Social change; Social history; Social problems
First sentence: This anthology, The Changing World--Social Problems and Alternatives: Critical Views, is designed to serve as an introduction to a wide range of social problems.
Table of contents: pagenum: v
title: Preface; pagenum: ix
title: Acknowledgements; title: A Changing World--Social Problems and Alternatives: Critical Views; pagenum: 1
title: Prologue; label: 1
title: The Sociology of Social Problems; pagenum: 25
title: Theory; pagenum: 45
title: Research Methods; label: 2
title: Structural Transormation: A Changing World; pagenum: 74
title: Population; pagenum: 80
title: Environment and Resources; pagenum: 90
title: Urbanization and Communities; pagenum: 104
title: International Conflict; label: 3
title: Structural Transormation And Social Institutions; pagenum: 117
title: Politic; pagenum: 136
title: Economy; pagenum: 147
title: Education; pagenum: 158
title: Religion; pagenum: 165
title: Family; label: 4
title: Structural Transormation And Inequality; pagenum: 198
title: Poverty and Affluence; pagenum: 236
title: Prejudice and Discrimination; label: 5
title: Structural Transormation: Private Troubles and Public Issues; pagenum: 299
title: Crime and Violence; pagenum: 339
title: Health Care: Physical and Mental; pagenum: 356
title: Sexual Transition; pagenum: 378
title: Drug Abuse; label: 6
title: Structural Transormation: Applied Sociology and Future Alternatives; pagenum: 401
title: Postindustrial Social Institutions?; pagenum: 448
title: Postindustrial Policy?; pagenum: 493
title: Epilogue; pagenum: 520
title: Selected Bibliography