NCJ Number
134300
Date Published
1992
Length
574 pages
Annotation
This textbook provides an overview of theory, empirical findings, issues, and policy implications regarding a variety of individual behaviors and collective social problems including drug abuse, crime, poverty, discrimination, environmental pollution, war, and other issues.
Abstract
The text also aims to indicate the overlaps and relationships among different social problems. An introduction presents definitions of social problems and an explanation of assumptions and sociological perspectives regarding social problems. Individual chapters focus on health problems and health care, mental illness, sex offenses and other sex-related problems, alcohol and other drug abuse, crime and crime control policies, violence, and social classes. Other chapters examine issues and responses to prejudice and discrimination, sex roles and sex discrimination, attitudes toward elderly persons, family problems, public education, employer-employee relations, consumer advocacy, urban problems, immigration, technology and the environment, war, and terrorism. Figures, tables, photographs, chapter summaries and reading lists, glossary, name and subject index, and approximately 900 references