The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems 2 Volume Hardback Set

by A. Javier Treviño (Editor)

Overview

The introduction of the Affordable Care Act in the United States, the increasing use of prescription drugs, and the alleged abuse of racial profiling by police are just some of the factors contributing to twenty-first-century social problems. The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems offers a wide-ranging roster of the social problems currently pressing for attention and amelioration. Unlike other works in this area, it also gives great consideration to theoretical and methodological discussions. This Handbook will benefit both undergraduate and graduate students eager to understand the sociology of social problems. It is suitable for classes in social problems, current events, and social theory. Featuring the most current research, the Handbook provides an especially useful resource for sociologists and graduate students conducting research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107121553
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/22/2018
Pages:	1137
Product dimensions:	7.24(w) x 10.28(h) x 2.56(d)

About the Author

A. Javier Treviño, 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.

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.