The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems 2 Volume Hardback Set

Cambridge University Press, 3/22/2018
EAN 9781107121553, ISBN10: 1107121558

Hardcover, 1137 pages, 26.1 x 18.4 x 6.5 cm
Language: English

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.

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.