TY  - BOOK
AU  - Treviño,A.Javier
TI  - The Cambridge handbook of social problems
SN  - 9781107121553 (2 vol. set : hardback : alk. paper)
U1  - 306.461 2
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social problems
N1  - Contents;

PART I
GENERAL CONCERNS AND
ORIENTATIONS IN THE STUDY
OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS
1. The Challenges of
Conceptualizing Social
Problems 3
Joseph Schneider
2. Research Methods 23
Amir Marvasti
3. Participatory Action Research
and Social Problems 39
Randy Stoecker
4. Public Policy and Social
Problems: Recent Trends in the
Formal Control of Individual
Behavior 57
Mark Peyrot and Stacy Lee Burns
5. Social Problems in Global
Perspective 77
Yvonne A. Braun and
Michael C. Dreiling
6. Bridging Social Movements and
Social Problems 99
Jaime Kucinskas
7. Public Sociology and Social
Problems 119
Joshua Meisel and Mary Virnoche
8. Service Sociology and Social
Problems 133
A. Javier Treviño
9. Astrosociology: Social Problems
on Earth and in Outer Space 149
Jim Pass
10. Prospects for the Sociological
Study of Social Problems 169


PART II
HISTORICAL AND
THEORETICAL ISSUES IN THE
STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS
11. Settlement Sociology 185
Patricia Lengermann and
Gillian Niebrugge
12. Chicago School: City as a Social
Laboratory 203
Roger Salerno
13. Luhmann’s Sociological Systems
Theory and the Study of Social
Problems 221
Werner Schirmer and
Dimitris Michailakis
14. The Conflict Approach 241
Steven E. Barkan
15. Radical Interactionism and
the Symbolism of
Methamphetamine 259
Michael A. Katovich
16. Social Constructionism 279
Peter R. Ibarra and Michael Adorjan

PART III
PROBLEMS OF
DISCRIMINATION AND
INEQUALITY
17. Racism 303
Heather M. Dalmage
18. Immigration 319
Cecilia Menjívar and
Andrea Gómez Cervantes
19. Gender Inequality 339
William J. Scarborough and
Barbara J. Risman
20. Sexualities and Homophobia 363
Catherine A. Gildae
21. Poverty and Income Inequality:
A Cross-National Perspective on
Social Citizenship 385
Eiko Strader and Joya Misra
22. Housing Market Discrimination 409
W. Dennis Keating
23. Hunger and Food Insecurity 423
Stephen J. Scanlan
24. Ageism, Past and Present 441
W. Andrew Achenbaum
25. Disabilities 459
Robyn Lewis Brown

PART IV
PROBLEMS OF INSTITUTIONS
26. Media and the Construction of
Social Problems 477
William Hoynes
27. Family Problems 497
Donna Holland
28. Problems in Education 513
Peter A. J. Stevens, Marios Vryonides,
and A. Gary Dworkin
29. Problems of the Workplace and
Workforce 531
Héctor L. Delgado
30. Long-Term Unemployment in
the United States 551
Ofer Sharone, David L. Blustein, and
Carl E. Van Horn

; Index : p. 567-583
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