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SECTION I. TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF CURRENT SOCIAL PROBLEMS Chapter 1.A Conceptual Tool Kit Chapter 2. Thinking About Social Problems 1. TheSociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills Why history is necessary tounderstand experience; how social problems (issues) differ from individualtroubles 2. Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories ofAnalysis and Connection, Patricia Hill Collins How everyone's life experienceexists within overlapping structures of race, gender and class 3. The Limitsof Science in Understanding Who We Are, Barbara Katz Rothman How scienceconstructs problems and solutions 4. Why I Love Trash, Joshua Gamson Howthe media shapes our common sense understandings of difference and deviance5. The Reproduction of Inequality: Interactionist Analysis,Michael Schwalbe,Sandra Godwin, Daphne Holden, Douglas Schrock, Shealy Thompson, MicheleWolkomir How our uncritical choices and behavior remake inequality every daySECTION II. SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND INEQUALITY Chapter 3. Power, Capitalism andGlobalization 6. One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of GlobalCapitalism, William Greider How the forces of global capitalism contribute toworldwide inequality 7. Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing theMeans of Consumption, George Ritzer How U.S. consumerism is affecting othercultures around the world 8. Corporate Welfare, Donald L. Barlett and JamesB Steele How the U.S. government spends more money on aid to wealthycorporations than on aid to the nation's poor 9. The Social Psychology ofModern Slavery, Kevin Bales How contemporary forms of slavery are created andmaintained within the global economy 10. Disposable Domestics: ImmigrantWomen in the Global Economy, Grace Chang How immigration laws lead to theeconomic exploitation women Chapter 4. Poverty 11. A World of Poverty, JohnIsbister Why wealthy corporation share responsibility for the conditions ofimpoverished countries 12. Ghetto-Related Behavior and the Structure ofOpportunity, William Julius Wilson How poverty and racism limit the choicesavailable to individuals in poor neighborhoods 13. The Enemy Within, RuthSidel Why women on welfare have become the scapegoat for a variety of socialproblems 14. Without a Safety Net, Barbara Ehrenreich and Frances Fox PivenWhat happens to former welfare recipients when the jobs are gone 15. MakingEnds Meet on a Welfare Check, Katheryn Edin and Laura Lein An examination ofthe many difficulties facing families on welfare Chapter 5. Race andEthnicity 16. American Diversity and the 2000 Census, Nathan Glazer How racehas been constructed through 200 years of governmental census taking 17.Exploring Asian Americans: The Myth of the "Model Minority" and the Realityof Their Lives, Jieli Li How racial stereotypes obscure ethnic differencesand real social problems 18. The Black-White Test Score Gap, ChristopherJencks and Meredith Phillips How biased edicational tests hinder the successof non-whites 19. The Place of Women Inside Organized Racism, Kathleen BleeHow traditional gender roles support organized racist groups 20. Beyond Blackand White: Ethnoviolence Between Oppressed Groups, Barbara Perry Howintercultural violence works to maintain social boundaries, group privileges,and racial hierarchies Chapter 6. Gender and Sexuality 21. Supremacy Crimes,Gloria Steinem Serious consequences of media blindness to the gender of thekillers at Columbine High School 22. Why Gender Matters: Women, Militarism,and Violence, Amy Caiazza Why attention to women is necessary to curb supportfor terrorism and to secure peace 23. Domestic Violence Among the Navajo: ALegacy of Colonization, Diane McEachern, Marlene Van Winkel, and Sue SteinerWhy US military domination and intentional obliteration of Navajo culture ledto woman battery 24. Embattled Terrain, Judith Lorber An evaulation of theevidence supporting different explanations of sexuality 25. Family Man:Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity, Scott Coltrane Why it is difficultfor heterosexual couples to change the way they enact care-giving rolesSECTION III. SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS Chapter 7. Work 26.White-Collar Sweatshop, Jill Andresky Fraser Corporate America's attempts todefine the nature of work 27. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and HomeBecomes Work, Arlie Hochschild How women and men deal with the conflictsbetween work and family demands 28. Nickle and Dimed: On (not) Getting By inAmerica, Barbara Ehrenreich What happens when the author tries to supportherself in the low-wage labor market 29. Gang Business: Making Ends Meet,Martin Sanchez Jankowski How urban gangs share the same entrepreneurialspirit that drives successful corporate leaders 30. The Effects ofAffirmative Action on Other Stakeholders, Barbara Reskin The ways thataffirmative action issues are constructed by policy stakeholders Chapter 8.Family 31. The Myth of Family Decline, Edward L. Kain Why many common senseideas about family are wrong. 32. Families on the Fault Line: America'sWorking Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity,Lillian Rubin How economic change particularly burdens working class families33. Lesbians Blurring the Boundaries and Transforming the Meaning ofParenthood and Kinship, Gillian A. Dunne How lesbian mothers redefine theboundaries, meaning, and content of parenthood 34. Activist Mothering,Community Caretaking, and Civic Work, Nancy A. Naples How a broader notion of"mothering" can lead women to political action 35. Dubious Conception: ThePolitics of Teenage Pregnancy Kristen Luker Why both liberals andconservatives are wrong about teen pregnancy Chapter 9. Education 36. SavageInequalities: Children in America's Schools, Jonathon Kozol How povertyproduces devastating results on the education of America's children 37. HowCorporations are Buying Their Way into America's Classrooms, Steven ManningWays that the growing influence of large corporations is shaping theeducational experience for students 38. Missing in Interaction, Myra Sadkerand David Sadker How teachers in America's schools perpetuate genderinequality 39. Confronting White Students: The Whiteness of UniversitySpaces, Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera and Nikitah Imani The consequences ofinstitutionalized racism at universities across the country 40. Religion andPublic Education in a Multicultural America, James Fraser Why religioustolerance must be included in the increasingly diverse classrooms ofAmerica's schools Chapter 10. The Criminal Justice System 41. Crime andPolicy, Steven R. Donziger Why criminal justice policy is driven by myths notthe realities of crime 42. Steeltown Lockdown, Barry Yeoman How correctionspolicy is controlled by a prison-industrial complex 43. Who Own's Death?,Robert Lifton and Greg Mitchell An evaulation of the social and politicalcontext of the death penalty in the USA 44. DWB Is Not a Crime: The NumbersShow that Police Unfairly and Unconstitutionally Pull Over More Cars DrivenBy Blacks, John Lamberth How racial profiling in traffic stops can bedemonstrated 45. "Whodunit? An Examination of the Production of WrongfulConvictions, William S. Lofquist How normal, day-to-day, routine decisionmaking in a flawed system produced a wrongful conviction 46. "I Don't have tobe Afraid of You," Amanda Konradi Why and how sexual assault survivors managetheir emotions during their court appearances Chapter 11. Illness and HealthCare 47. Your Money or Your Life: Access to Medical Care as a SocialProblem, Robert Hanneman How the medical care we receive is affected by ourability to pay 48. Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor, KenSilverstein The ways that corporate profits determine pharmacologicalresearch 49. An Old City Seeks a New Model, Joshua Wolf Shenk How one majorU.S. city changes the ways it deals with drug abuse 50. The Patient asObject, Daniel F. Chambliss How health care personnel view and treat patientsas less than fully human 51. The Social Organization of Responsibility in theHospital and the Home, Carol A. Heimer and Lisa Staffen. How patients andtheir families make difficult medical decisions Chapter 12. Environment 52.Wealth, Resources, and Power, Michael Klare The global implications ofresource management and environmental policies 53. Open Season on Open Space,Bob Burtman How the profit interests of America's lawmakers are placed aboveenvironmental concerns 54. Mapping the Nuclear Landscape, Valarie KuletzThe ways that America's nuclear policies reflect racial inequality 55.Natural Capitalism, Paul Hawkin How defining environmental resources as aform of capital can help to ensure clean water, air, and land Chapter 13.Global Politics, Terrorism, and War 56. Why the World's Superpower Can't Goit Alone, Joseph S. Nye Why the United States must see itself as part of aglobal community in order to achieve true security 57. Liberty vs.Patriotism, Chip Pitts and Jennifer Holmes Why lawmakers' focus on homelandsecurity conflicts with fundamental principles of American society 58.Conquest: Sex, Rape and Exploitation in War Time, Joshua Goldstein Howgender-based inequality and violence become a key strategy of war 59. The Painful Art of Reconciliation, David Lamb How interaction between formerenemies from vastly different cultures leads to psychological healing