The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems: Volume 1

Offers a wide-ranging roster of the social problems currently pressing for attention and amelioration.

A. Javier Treviño (Edited by)

9781108426169, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 March 2018

594 pages, 8 b/w illus. 6 tables
26.1 x 18.5 x 3.3 cm, 1.43 kg

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.

Part I. General Concerns and Orientations in the Study of Social Problems: 1. The challenges of conceptualizing social problems Joseph Schneider
2. Research methods Amir Marvasti
3. Participatory action research and social problems Randy Stoecker
4. Public policy and social problems: recent trends in the formal control of individual behavior Mark Peyrot
5. Social problems in global perspective Yvonne A. Braun and Michael C. Dreiling
6. Bridging social movements and social problems Jaime Kucinskas
7. Public sociology and social problems Joshua Meisel and Mary Virnoche
8. Service sociology and social problems A. Javier Treviño
9. Astrosociology: social problems on Earth and in outer space Jim Pass
10. Prospects for the sociological study of social problems Joel Best, Donileen R. Loseke
Part II. Historical and Theoretical Issues in the Study of Social Problems: 11. Settlement sociology Patricia Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge
12. Chicago school: city as a social laboratory Roger Salerno
13. Luhmann's sociological systems theory and the study of social problems Werner Schirmer and Dimitris Michailakis
14. The conflict approach Steven E. Barkan
15. Radical interactionism and the symbolism of methamphetamine Michael A. Katovich
16. Social constructionism Peter R. Ibarra and Michael Adorjan
Part III. Problems of Discrimination and Inequality: 17. Racism Heather M. Dalmage
18. Immigration Cecilia Menjívar and Andrea Gómez Cervantes
19. Gender inequality William J. Scarborough and Barbara Risman
20. Sexualities and homophobia Catherine A. Gildae
21. Poverty and income inequality: a cross-national perspective on social citizenship Eiko Strader and Joya Misra
22. Housing market discrimination W. Dennis Keating
23. Hunger and food insecurity Stephen J. Scanlan
24. Ageism, past and present W. Andrew Achenbaum
25. Disabilities Robyn Lewis Brown
Part IV. Problems of Institutions: 26. Media and the construction of social problems William Hoynes
27. Family problems Donna Holland
28. Problems in education Peter A. J. Stevens, Vryonides Marios and A. Gary Dworkin
29. Problems of the workplace and workforce Héctor L. Delgado
30. Long-term unemployment in the United States Ofer Sharone, David Blustein and Carl E. Van Horn.

Subject Areas: Social theory [JHBA], Sociology [JHB]