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Author:   A. Javier Trevino (Wheaton College, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.40cm , Height: 6.50cm , Length: 26.10cm
Weight:   2.800kg
ISBN:  

9781107121553

ISBN 10:   1107121558
Pages:   1137
Publication Date:   22 March 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Volume I: Part I. General Concerns and Orientations in the Study of Social Problems: 1. The challenges of conceptualizing social problems; 2. Research methods; 3. Participatory action research and social problems; 4. Public policy and social problems: recent trends in the formal control of individual behavior; 5. Social problems in global perspective; 6. Bridging social movements and social problems; 7. Public sociology and social problems; 8. Service sociology and social problems; 9. Astrosociology: social problems on Earth and in outer space; 10. Prospects for the sociological study of social problems; II. Historical and Theoretical Issues in the Study of Social Problems: 11. Settlement sociology; 12. Chicago school: city as a social laboratory; 13. Luhmann's sociological systems theory and the study of social problems; 14. The conflict approach; 15. Radical interactionism and the symbolism of methamphetamine; 16. Social constructionism; Part III. Problems of Discrimination and Inequality: 17. Racism; 18. Immigration; 19. Gender inequality; 20. Sexualities and homophobia; 21. Poverty and income inequality: a cross-national perspective on social citizenship; 22. Housing market discrimination; 23. Hunger and food insecurity; 24. Ageism, past and present; 25. Disabilities; Part IV. Problems of Institutions: 26. Media and the construction of social problems; 27. Family problems; 28. Problems in education; 29. Problems of the workplace and workforce; 30. Long-term unemployment in the United States. Volume II: Part I. Problems Related to Health, Safety, and Security: 1. Illness and health care; 2. Mental illness and social problems; 3. Substance abuse; 4. Epidemics, pandemics, and outbreaks; 5. Disaster as social problem and social construct; 6. Surveillance; 7. Domestic spying: a historical-comparative perspective; 8. Computer hacking as a social problem; 9. War and militarism; 10. The social problem of terrorism; 11. Genocide; Part II. Problems Related to Crime and Violence: 12. The problem of crime; 13. Corporate malfeasance as a social problem; 14. The construction of school bullying as a social problem; 15. Rampage school shootings; 16. Understanding sexual violence: the role of causal and precipitating factors in sexual offending; 17. Critical and intersectional understandings of campus sexual assault as a social problem; 18. Child abuse and neglect; 19. Family violence; 20. Juvenile violence; 21. Gangs and gang violence; 22. State violence; 23. Hate crime; 24. Police brutality; 25. Capital punishment/death penalty; 26. Wrongful convictions: comparative perspectives; Part VI. Problems of Global Impact: 27. Urbanism and urbanization; 28. Technology and social problems; 29. Population and contemporary social problems; 30. Environmental problems.

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A. Javier Trevino, Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College, Massachusetts, is the author and editor of several books including The Social Thought of C. Wright Mills (2012), The Development of Sociological Theory: Readings from the Enlightenment to the Present (2017), C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution: An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination (2017), and Investigating Social Problems (Second Edition, 2018). He has served as President of the Justice Studies Association (2000-02) and as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (2010-11). He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex (2006), a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Moldova (2009), and since 2014 has been a Visiting Professor in Social and Political Theory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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