Handbook of Social Problems A Comparative International Perspective

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I Introduction ....1 1. Social problems: A comparative international perspective ....3 2. Theoretical issues in the study of social problems and deviance ....14 3. Methodological issues in the study of social problems ....30 4. Social problems and public policy ....47 Part II. Social problems ....67 5. Population change ....69 6. Ecological problems ....87 7.Global inequality ....101 8. Racism in comparative perspective ....121 9. Ethnic conflict as a global social problem .....139 10. Gender inequality ....156 11. Urban problems in global perspective .....172 12. Work-related social problems ....193 13. The media and social problems ....209 14. Consumption as a social problem ....226 15. Family problems in global perspective ....246 16. Racial and ethnic educational inequality in global perspective ....261 17. Health as a social problem .....281 18. How medical care systems become social problems ....298 19. Aids as a social problem: The creation of social pariahs in the management of an epidemic ....316 20. War militarism, and national security ....335 21 Sea change: The modern terrorist environment in perspective ...355 22. The rhetoric and reality of mass destruction: how genocide became an international social problem ....268 23. Globalization ....389 24. Technology and social problems ....416 25. The internet as a global social problem ...433 26. Risk .....451 27 Crime .....465 28. Juvenile delinquency ....480 29. Drug use as a global social problem ....494 30. The sexual spectacle: Making a public culture of sexual problems ....521 31. Modern-day folk devils and the problem of children`s presence in the global sex trade .....542 32. Mental illness as a social problem ....561 33. Disability as a global issue ....586 34. Corruption as a global social problem ....600