基本説明
Focussed on social problems of global interest, with weight towards American society, top sociologists have contributed chapters to this handbook.
Full Description
"Ritzer's Handbook of Social Problems offers a comprehensive treatment of today's major societal issues. The articles are authored by some of the top scholars in the field and address problem areas that will capture the interests of students and professors alike. The international coverage is most welcome in this time of intensifying global inequalities."
-Nancy Jurik,
Arizona State University
The Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective provides a unique, broadly comparative perspective on the current state of social problems and deviance in a variety of societies around the world. Editor George Ritzer, along with leading U.S. and international sociologists, examines the relationship between social problems and a society's level of development and affluence.
The essays in this volume focus on four interrelated issues involved in the relationship between social problems and the level of development and affluence:
· Less developed and less affluent societies are more likely to experience a range of social problems than developed and affluent societies.
· Affluence causes or at least brings with it a series of social problems that do not exist in less affluent societies.
· It is only with affluence that certain things can come to be imagined as social problems, such as excessive consumption.
· The very affluence of a society makes it vulnerable to problems that would not be social problems in poorer societies.
The Handbook explores the theory of the weakness of the strong—in other words, strong or wealthy nations may have greater vulnerability to some social problems than less developed or affluent societies. This theory is clearly illustrated in this volume by the aftermath of September 11, 2001depicting the vulnerability of the U.S. to social problems in far-removed corners of the world. In addition, the international and comparative essays in this volume cover other important issues such as the impact of modern technologies on social problems, ecological problems, global inequality, health as a social problem, and much more. The Handbook of Social Problems is a vital resource for sociologists and graduate students, as well as an excellent addition to any academic library.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Ch.01 Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective - George Ritzer
Ch 02 Theoretical Issues in the Study of Social Problems and Deviance - Joel Best
Ch. 03 Methodological Issues in the Study of Social Problems - Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Ch. 04 Social Problems and Public Policy - Tim Blackman and Roberta Woods
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Ch. 05 Population Change - Sonalde Desai
Ch. 06 Ecological Problems - Steven Yearley
Ch. 07 Global Inequality - Salvatore J. Babones and Jonathan H. Turner
Ch. 08 Racism in Comparative Perspective - Joe R. Feagin and Pinar Batur
Ch. 09 Ethnic Conflict as a Global Social Problem - Thomas D. Hall
Ch. 10 Gender Inequality - Amy S. Wharton
Ch. 11 Urban Problems in Global Perspective - Chigon Kim and Mark Gottdiener
Ch. 12 Work-Related Social Problems - Teresa A. Sullivan
Ch. 13 The Media and Social Problems - Douglas Kellner
Ch. 14 Consumption as a Social Problem - Douglas J. Goodman
Ch. 15 Family Problems in Global Perspective - Felix M. Berardo and Constance L. Shehan
Ch. 16 Racial and Ethnic Educational Inequality in Global Perspective - Caroline Hodges Persell, Richard Arum, and Kathryn Seufert
Ch. 17 Health as a Social Problem - William C. Cockerham
Ch. 18 How Medical Care Systems Become Social Problems - Andrew Twaddle
Ch. 19 Aids as a Social Problem: The Creation of Social Pariahs in The Management of an Epidemic - Bronwen Lichtenstein
Ch. 20 War, Militarism and National Security - Ian Roxborough
Ch. 21 Sea Change: The Modern Terrorist Environment in Perspective - Gus Martin
Ch. 22 The Rhetoric and Reality of "Mass Destruction": How Genocide Became an International Social Problem - David Norman Smith
Ch. 23. Globalization - John Boli, Michael A. Elliott and Franziska Bieri
Ch. 24 Technology and Social Problems - Frank Webster and Mark Erickson
Ch. 25 The Internet as a Global Social Problem - Gili S. Drori
Ch. 26 Risk - John Tulloch
DEVIANCE
Ch. 27 Crime - Michael Tonry
Ch. 28 Juvenile Delinquency - Mark C. Stafford
Ch. 29 Drug Use as a Global Social Problem - Erich Goode
Ch. 30 The Sexual Spectacle: Making a Public Culture of Sexual Problems - Ken Plummer
Ch. 31 Modern Day Folk Devils and the Problem of Children's Presence in the Global Sex Trade - Julia O'Connell Davidson
Ch. 32 Mental Illness as a Social Problem - Howard B. Kaplan
Ch. 33 Disability As a Global Issue - Gary L. Albrecht
Ch. 34 Corruption as a Global Social Problem - Gary LaFree and Nancy Morris
