Social Problems, 12/E

With a critical, conflict perspective, this text looks at the social structures and inequalities that contribute to social problems.

Taking a conflict approach, top-selling Social Problems 12e focuses on the underlying features of the social world in an effort to help students to understand today's social problems.

ÀúÀÚ : D. Stanley Eitzen

D. Stanley Eitzen (Ph.D. University of Kansas) is professor emeritus in sociology from Colorado State University, where previously he was the John N. Stern Distinguished Professor. Among his books are Social Problems (with Maxine Baca Zinn and Kelly Eitzen Smith)and Diversity in Families (with Maxine Baca Zinn and Barbara Wells), both of which received McGuffey Awards from the Text and Academic Authors Association for excellence and longevity over multiple editions. He is also the author and co-author of four Solutions to Social Problems volumes with Allyn & Bacon; Paths to Homelessness: Extreme Poverty and the Urban Housing Crisis (with Doug A. Timmer and Kathryn Talley); Sociology of North American Sport (with George H. Sage); and Fair and Foul: Rethinking the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport. He has served as the president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and as editor of The Social Science Journal.

ÀúÀÚ : Maxine Baca Zinn

Maxine Baca Zinn (Ph.D. University of Oregon) is Professor Emeritus in sociology at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. Her main research interests are racial inequality, gender, and family life. She is the author and co-author of many other books, including Diversity in Families (with D. Stanley Eitzen and Barbara Wells),Social Problems (with D. Stanley Eitzen and Kelly Eitzen Smith), Women of Color in U.S. Society, Gender Through the Prism of Difference, and Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds. In 2000, she received the ASA Jessie Bernard Career Award.

ÀúÀÚ : Kelly Eitzen Smith

Kelly Eitzen Smith received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona. She is currently the director of the Center for Applied Sociology and a lecturer at the University of Arizona. At the Center for Applied Sociology she has conducted research in the areas of day labor, homelessness, poverty, urban housing and neighborhood development. Her sociological interests include gender, family, sexuality, stratification, and social problems. She is also the co-author of Experiencing Poverty (with D.Stanley Eitzen), andSocial Problems (with D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn).

Part I Political Economy of Social Problems
1 The Sociological Approach to Social Problems
2 Wealth and Power: The Bias of the System

Part II Problems of People, the Environment, and Location
3 World Population and Global Inequality
4 Threats to the Environment
5 Demographic Changes in the United States: The Browning and Graying of Society
6 Problems of Place: Urban, Suburban, and Rural

Part III Problems of Inequality
7 Poverty
8 Racial and Ethnic Inequality
9 Gender Inequality
10 Sexual Orientation
11 Disability and Ableism

Part IV Social Structure and Individual Deviance
12 Crime and Justice
13 Drugs

Part V Institutional Problems
14 The Economy and Work
15 Families
16 Education
17 The Health Care System
18 National Security in the Twenty-First Century

Part VI Solutions
19 Progressive Plan to Solve Social Problems