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Eitzen, D. Stanley.

Social problems / D. Stanley Eitzen, Maxine Baca Zinn. - 5th ed. - Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1992. - xix, 636 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Part 1. The political economy of social problems. The sociological approach to social problems --
Wealth and power: the bias of the system --
Part 2. The United global social problems. World population and global inequality: the Third World and the United States --
Threats to the environment --
Demographic changes in the United States: the browning and graying of society --
Urban problems in the United States --
Part 3. Problems of inequality. Poverty --
Racial and ethnic inequality --
Gender inequality --
Sexual orientation --
Part 4. Institutional problems. Work --
Families --
Education --
Health and health care delivery --
National security --
Part 5. Social structure and individual deviance. Crime and justice --
Drug.

ISBN: 0205131077 (recycled, acidfree paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social problems.
Social structure

LC Class. No.: HN17.5 / .E37