Taking a conflict approach, Eitzen and Baca Zinn focus on the underlying features of the social world in an effort to help students to understand today's social problems.
Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Part One: Political Economy of Social Problems
Chapter 1 Sociological Approach to Social Problems
Chapter 2 Wealth and Power: the Bias of the System Part Two: Problems of People, the Environment, and Location
Chapter 3 World Population and Global Inequality
Chapter 4 Threats to the Environment
Chapter 5 Demographic Changes in the United States: the Browning and Graying of Society
Chapter 6 Problems of Place: Urban, Suburban, and Rural Part Three: Problems of Inequality
Chapter 7 Poverty
Chapter 8 Racial and Ethnic Inequality
Chapter 9 Gender Inequality
Chapter 10 Sexual Orientation
Chapter 11 Disability and Ableism Part Four: Social Structure and Individual Deviance
Chapter 12 Crime and Justice
Chapter 13 Drugs Part Five: Institutional Problems
Chapter 14 Work
Chapter 15 Families
Chapter 16 Education
Chapter 17 Health and Health Care Delivery
Chapter 18 National Security in the Twenty-First Century Part Six: Solutions
Chapter 19 Progressive Plan to solve Society's Social Problems FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE POLITICAL ECONOMY
OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Chapter 1 SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS History of Social Problems Theory Toward a Definition of Social
Problems Types of Social Problems Norm Violations Social Conditions The Sociological Imagination Social Structure
as the Basic Unit of Analysis Person-Blame Approach versus System-Blame Approach Reasons for Focusing on the System-Blame
Approach Organization of the Book
Chapter Review Key Terms Websites for Further Reference
Chapter 2 WEALTH AND POWER: THE BIAS OF THE SYSTEM Capitalism and Socialism Capitalism Socialism U.S. Economy:
Concentration of Corporate Wealth Monopolistic Capitalism Transnational Corporations Concentration of Wealth Political
System: Links between Wealth and Power Government by Interest Groups Financing of Political Campaigns Candidate
Selection Process Bias of the Political S
