Social Problems 6th edition

ISBN:013099927X

ISBN13:9780130999276

Publisher:Pearson

Authors:Joe R. Feagin, Joe Feagin, David Baker, Clairece B. Feagin, David V. Baker, Clairece Booher Feagin, Clairece Booher R Feagin

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Social Problems 6 Edition (NOTE: Each chapter begins with Goals of the Chapter and concludes with Summary, Study Questions, and Endnotes.)  1. A Troubled Society. Americans View Their Lives  Workaday Troubles  Latino and African Americans  The View from the Home  Problems with Gender Discrimination: Women Workers  Family Tragedies  Interpreting Life’s Troubles   Societal Decline: The Genuine Progress Indicator   People Working for Change: Some Recent Examples  The United Farm Workers Union  Clerical Workers’ Unions  Striking for Better Conditions in the South  Protesting Toxic Pollution  Traditional Perspectives on Society and Social Problems  The European Background  Corporate Liberalism  Social Problems: The Durkheimian Tradition in the United States  Mainstream Social Science Views of Social Problems   A Critical Power–Conflict Perspective  Background: The Thought of Karl Marx  Contemporary Class Perspectives  Perspectives Emphasizing Gender and Race   Conclusion: Some Working Propositions      2. Class Relations and the Problem of Inequality. Some Revealing Societal Snapshots  Plant Closings  Workplace Hazards  Five Million Rolling Fire Bombs  Toxic Chemicals in the Environment  How Are Classes Defined? Some Lessons from the Snapshots   A Closer Look at Class Relations in Our Society  The Class Structure  The Capitalist Class  The Working Class  The Managerial Class  The Small-Business Class  Other Important Groups  The Corporate Structure   The State  Capitalism Large Corporations and the State: The Example of the Farm Crisis  Contrasting Views of Inequality  The Persisting Problem of Income Inequality Patterns of Income Inequality The Very Rich  Effects of Income Inequality: Length and Quality of Life  Education and Income Inequality  Impact on Government  Workers’ Real IncomesA Two-Tiered Society?   The Inequality of Wealth  The Early Period  Wealth in Contemporary America  Families and Corporations   Taxation   Consequences of Income and Wealth Inequality   Sources of Capitalists’ Wealth  Mercantile and Plantation Capitalism (1700–1850)  Industrial Capitalism (1850–1890)  Early Monopoly Capitalism (1890–1940)  Advanced (Late) Monopoly Capitalism (1940–?)     3. Poverty Unemployment and Underemployment. Low Incomes and Poverty  The Extent and Character of Poverty  Questioning the Official Poverty Count   Unemployment Underemployment and Poverty  Official Unemployment Statistics  Questioning Official Unemployment Statistics  The Unemployment Link to Poverty  Unemployment’s Impact   Capitalism Unemployment and Poverty  The Underclass Concept  Capitalism and the Poor The Intense Quest for Private Profit &
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