Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Social problems : a comparative international perspective / George Ritzer
- Theoretical issues in the study of social problems and deviance / Joel Best
- Methodological issues in the study of social problems / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
- Social problems and public policy / Tim Blackman, Teeside and Roberta Woods
- Social Problems. Population change / Sonalde Desai
- Ecological problems / Steven Yearley
- Global inequality / Salvatore J. Babones and Jonathan H. Turner
- Racism in comparative perspective / Joe R. Feagin and Pinar Batura
- Ethnic conflict as a global social problem / Thomas D. Hall and Lester M. Jones
- Gender inequality / Amy S. Wharton
- Urban problems in global perspective / Chigon Kim and Mark Gottdiener
- Work-related social problems / Teresa A. Sullivan
- The media and social problems / Douglas Kellner
- Consumption as a social problem / Douglas J. Goodman
- Family problems in global perspective / Felix M. Berardo and Constance L. Shehan
- Racial and ethnic educational inequality in global perspective / Caroline Hodges Persell, Richard Arum, and Kathryn Seufert
- Health as a social problem / William C. Cockerham
- How medical care systems become social problems / Andrew Twaddle
- Aids as a social problem : the creation of social pariahs in the management of an epidemic / Bronwen Lichtenstein
- War, militarism and national security / Ian Roxborough
- Sea change : the modern terrorist environment in perspective / Gus Martin
- The geopolitics of mass destruction : how genocide became a global social problem / David Norman Smith
- Globalization / John Boli
- Technology and social problems / Frank Webster and Mark Erickson, Aston
- The internet as a global social problem / Gili S. Drori
- Risk / John Tulloch
- Deviance. Crime / Michael Tonry
- Juvenile delinquency / Mark C. Stafford
- Drug use as a global social problem / Erich Goode
- The sexual spectacle : making a public culture of sexual problems / Ken Plummer
- Modern day folk devils and the problem of children's presence in the global sex trade / Julia O'Connell Davidson
- Mental illness as a social problem / Howard B. Kaplan
- Disability as a global issue / Gary L. Albrecht
- Corruption as a global social problem / Gary LaFree and Nancy Morris.
