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  • ISBN-10: 1071851225
  • ISBN-13: 9781071851227
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  • ISBN-13: 9781071851227
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The Second Edition of Sociology in Action: Social Problems offers readers an active learning experience that encourages discussion, collaboration, self-directed investigation, observation, analysis, and reflection. Maxine P. Atkinson and Kathleen Odell Korgen provide concrete ways to make use of sociological training in the “real” world by considering sociological solutions to a range of social problems and issues facing society today. 

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Learning Activities xxi
Preface xxv
Acknowledgments xxvii
About the Authors xxix
About the Contributors xxxi
PART I INEQUALITIES AS SOCIAL PROBLEMS
1(114)
Chapter 1 Understanding and Solving Social Problems
3(16)
What Is a Social Problem?
3(3)
Social Problems Are Social Constructions
4(1)
Social Constructionism Perspective
4(1)
Confronting Social Problems 1.1 You and Your Society
5(1)
Check Your Understanding
6(1)
Sociology and the Study of Social Problems
6(3)
Confronting Social Problems 1.2 Learning to Ask Why
6(1)
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
7(1)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
7(1)
Check Your Understanding
8(1)
Why Are Some, but Not Other, Social Conditions Considered Social Problems?
9(3)
What Sparked the Quicksand Fear?
9(1)
Social Problems and Power
9(1)
The Power of Organized People
10(1)
Same-Sex Marriage Movement
10(1)
Confronting Social Problems 1.3 Constructing a Social Problem
11(1)
Check Your Understanding
11(1)
How Can Professional Sociologists---and You---Help Solve Social Problems?
12(7)
The Core Commitments of Sociology and the Sociological Imagination
12(1)
Confronting Social Problems 1.4 Using the Sociological Imagination to Address Student Debt
12(1)
Check Your Understanding
13(1)
How to Conduct Social Scientific Research
13(1)
Confronting Social Problems 1.5 Why Can You Trust the Social Scientific Research Process?
14(1)
Finding and Collecting Good Information
14(1)
What Social Problems Do You Want to Address?
14(2)
Check Your Understanding
16(1)
Conclusion
16(1)
Review
16(1)
Discussion Questions
17(1)
Key Terms
17(2)
Chapter 2 Analyzing Economic Inequalities
19(26)
Economic Inequality and Social Problems
19(2)
Defining Economic Inequality
20(1)
Slavery
20(1)
Caste
20(1)
Estate
21(1)
Social Class
21(1)
Confronting Social Problems 2.1 Comparing Social Class and Economic Inequality
21(1)
Check Your Understanding
21(1)
Explaining Economic Inequality
21(2)
Social Reproduction Theory
22(1)
Davis-Moore Hypothesis
22(1)
Confronting Social Problems 2.2 Reflecting on Beliefs About Economic Inequality
23(1)
Check Your Understanding
23(1)
Wealth and Income Gaps: How Much Inequality Exists?
23(3)
Wealth Inequality in the United States and Globally
23(3)
Income Inequality in the United States and Globally
26(1)
Confronting Social Problems 2.3 Looking at Wealth and Income Inequality
26(1)
Check Your Understanding
26(1)
The Question of Mobility
26(4)
Trends in Mobility
27(1)
Why Mobility Has Declined in Recent Decades
27(1)
Neoliberal Economic Policies
27(1)
Globalization
28(1)
Automation/Technology
28(1)
Decline of Unions
28(1)
Confronting Social Problems 2.4 Moving Up or Down in Social Class
29(1)
Check Your Understanding
30(1)
Social Problems That Cause Economic Inequality
30(3)
Racism
30(1)
Sexism
31(1)
Educational Inequalities
31(1)
Social and Cultural Capital
32(1)
Confronting Social Problems 2.5 Inequality and Mobility
32(1)
Check Your Understanding
33(1)
Social Problems Caused by Economic Inequality
33(12)
Health Problems and Human Rights Violations
33(1)
Loss of Contributions to Society
33(1)
Harm to the Environment
33(1)
Increased Violence
34(1)
Government Instability
34(1)
Problems for Individuals
34(1)
Confronting Social Problems 2.6 Social Problems and Economic Inequality
35(1)
Check Your Understanding
35(1)
Solving the Social Problem of Economic Inequality: Policies, Movements, and Action
35(1)
Evaluating Solutions
35(1)
Solutions Based on Social Reproduction Theory
35(1)
Solutions Based on the Davis-Moore Hypothesis
36(1)
U.S. Policies That Decreased Economic Inequality in the Past
36(1)
The New Deal
36(1)
The War on Poverty
37(1)
Current Policies and Economic Inequality
37(1)
Economic Redistribution Policies
38(2)
Solutions Involving Labor Unions
40(1)
Social Movements to Reduce Economic Inequality
40(1)
The $15/Hour Minimum Wage Movement
40(1)
How Sociological Tools Can Help Us Understand and Address Economic Inequality
40(2)
Confronting Social Problems 2.7 Reducing Economic Inequality
42(1)
Check Your Understanding
42(1)
Conclusion
42(1)
Review
42(1)
Discussion Questions
43(1)
Key Terms
43(2)
Chapter 3 Recognizing Racism and Racial Inequalities
45(18)
What Is Race?
45(3)
Confronting Social Problems 3.1 How Do We Identify Each Other?
47(1)
Check Your Understanding
47(1)
What Is Racism?
48(1)
Confronting Social Problems 3.2 Explaining Prejudice and Racism
48(1)
Check Your Understanding
49(1)
Why Does Racial Inequality Exist?
49(4)
Racially Discriminatory Laws and Policies
49(1)
Slavery and Jim Crow Laws
49(1)
Redlining
50(1)
Urban Renewal, White Flight, and Gentrification
51(1)
The Wealth Gap
51(1)
Schools
52(1)
Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital
52(1)
Confronting Social Problems 3.3 Racial Privilege
52(1)
Check Your Understanding
53(1)
Why Do Racial Inequality and Racism Persist?
53(2)
Inherited Wealth, Schools, and Racism in the Criminal Justice System
53(1)
Confronting Social Problems 3.4 Origins of the Black-White Wealth Gap
54(1)
Blaming Culture
54(1)
Check Your Understanding
55(1)
What Social Problems Relate to Racism and Racial Inequalities?
55(3)
Voter Suppression
55(1)
Confronting Social Problems 3.5 Racism and Voter Suppression
55(1)
Discrimination in Employment
56(2)
The Informal Economy and Gangs
58(1)
Check Your Understanding
58(1)
How Can We Challenge and Address Racism and Racial Inequality?
58(5)
Gaining Education and Changing Institutions
58(1)
Confronting Social Problems 3.6 Making a Difference
59(1)
Participating in Social Movements and Voting
59(1)
Check Your Understanding
60(1)
Conclusion
60(1)
Review
60(1)
Discussion Questions
61(1)
Key Terms
62(1)
Chapter 4 Examining Gender Inequalities
63(30)
How Does the Social Constructionist Perspective Help Us Understand Gender Inequality?
64(3)
The Social Construction of Gender
64(1)
Different Ways of Doing Gender
65(1)
Confronting Social Problems 4.1 How Does the Media Construct Gender Norms?
66(1)
Broadening Our Gender Lens: Intersectionality
66(1)
Where Does Gender Inequality Happen?
66(1)
Check Your Understanding
67(1)
The Roots of Contemporary Gender Inequality: Identifying Patriarchal Culture
67(2)
Confronting Social Problems 4.2 The Underlying Cause of Contemporary Gender Inequality
69(1)
Check Your Understanding
69(1)
Contemporary Gender Inequality in the Workplace
69(8)
Defining the Gender Wage Gap
70(1)
Explaining the Wage Gap: Occupational Segregation
70(4)
Explaining the Wage Gap: Employer Preference and Discrimination
74(1)
Explaining the Wage Gap: The Glass Ceiling
75(1)
Confronting Social Problems 4.3 Making Sense of the COVID-19 "Shecession"
76(1)
Explaining the Wage Gap: Sexual Harassment and Hostile Work Environments
76(1)
Explaining the Wage Gap: The Glass Escalator
76(1)
Explaining the Wage Gap: Gender Socialization
76(1)
Check Your Understanding
77(1)
Men's Violence Against Women
77(4)
Rape and Sexual Violence
77(1)
Sexual Assault on College Campuses
78(1)
Street Harassment
79(1)
Cyber Harassment and Digital Abuse
80(1)
Confronting Social Problems 4.4 What Is Rape Culture?
80(1)
Check Your Understanding
81(1)
How Do Today's Gender Expectations Impact Boys and Men?
81(3)
Work-Related Injuries and Death
81(1)
Suicide and Other Health Issues: The Stigma of Vulnerability and Victimization
82(1)
Confronting Social Problems 4.5 "Man Up"
82(1)
Family Engagement
83(1)
Check Your Understanding
83(1)
Other Gendered Social Problems
84(3)
Mass Shootings as a Gendered Social Problem
84(1)
Sexual Objectification of Women in the Media and Pornification of Culture
84(1)
Confronting Social Problems 4.6 Mass Shooters and Gender
85(1)
Regulating and Policing Women's Bodies
86(1)
Check Your Understanding
87(1)
Gender-Based Movements and Social Change
87(6)
Confronting Social Problems 4.7 Social Movements That Address Gender Inequality
89(1)
Check Your Understanding
89(1)
Conclusion
89(1)
Review
89(1)
Discussion Questions
90(1)
Key Terms
91(2)
Chapter 5 Focusing on Sex and Sexuatities
93(22)
Sex and Sexualities
93(4)
Sexual Orientation
94(1)
Types of Sexual Orientations
95(1)
Other Conceptions of Sexualities
96(1)
Confronting Social Problems 5.1 Defining and Reflecting on Sexualities and Sexual Orientation
96(1)
Social Problems and Sex and Sexualities
97(1)
Check Your Understanding
97(1)
Social Responses to Sex and Sexualities
97(6)
Sodomy Laws
97(1)
Confronting Social Problems 5.2 The Relationship Between Laws and Structural Inequalities
98(1)
Sex Work Laws
98(2)
Sexual Abuse and Assault Laws
100(1)
Sex Trafficking and Sexual Slavery
101(1)
Sexual Orientation Laws
101(1)
Treatment of LGBTQ People in the Military
101(1)
Same-Sex Families and the Law
102(1)
Confronting Social Problems 5.3 Sexuality-Related Laws Across Countries
103(1)
Check Your Understanding
103(1)
Enforcing Sexual Norms at the Micro Level
103(4)
Backlash Against LGBTQ Gains
103(1)
Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crimes: Bullying, Harassment, and Violence in Schools and the Workplace
104(1)
Bullying and Harassment in Schools
104(2)
Bullying and Harassment at Work
106(1)
Confronting Social Problems 5.4 Assessment of LGBTQ Acceptance in Your Social Environment
106(1)
Socioeconomic and Health Consequences of Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination
106(1)
Medical Care
107(1)
Check Your Understanding
107(1)
Why Attitudes Toward Sex and Sexualities Change
107(8)
Moral Panics
107(1)
Moral Panic and Sex Offenders
108(1)
Changing Norms Around Sexual Behavior Outside of Marriage
108(1)
Shifting Attitudes on Sexual Orientation and Same-Sex Marriage
108(3)
Check Your Understanding
111(1)
Conclusion
111(1)
Review
111(1)
Discussion Questions
112(1)
Key Terms
113(2)
PART II GLOBAL POPULATION PROBLEMS
115(114)
Chapter 6 Preparing for Aging Societies
117(26)
What Is Population Aging?
117(8)
Measuring Population Age
118(1)
Why Do Populations Age?
119(1)
Demographic Transition in Theory and Practice
119(1)
Examples of Aging Populations
119(5)
Confronting Social Problems 6.1 Population Aging in the United States
124(1)
Check Your Understanding
125(1)
What Social Problems Accompany Aging Societies?
125(6)
Sustainability of Social Security and Other Entitlements
125(1)
Medical Expenditures and Demand for Health Care Services
126(1)
Critical Perspectives on the "Gray Tsunami"
126(1)
Micro-Level Aging Challenges
127(1)
Aging, Inequalities, and Later-Life Well-Being: Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity
127(1)
Poverty and Inequalities Within Older Populations
127(2)
Confronting Social Problems 6.2 What Messages About Aging Does Popular Culture Convey?
129(1)
Social Status, Age, and Discrimination
129(1)
Intergenerational Conflict
130(1)
Check Your Understanding
130(1)
What Are Governments Doing to Prepare for Aging Populations?
131(3)
Retirement Age, Pension Reform, and Social Security Policies
131(1)
Confronting Social Problems 6.3 Mandatory Age-Based Retirement
132(1)
Health Care for Aging Societies
132(1)
Family-Focused Programs and Reproductive Incentives
133(1)
Immigration Policies
133(1)
Check Your Understanding
134(1)
What Can Local Communities Do to Improve Conditions of Aging?
134(9)
Slowing the Rate of Population Aging in Local Communities
134(1)
Promoting Aging in Place
135(1)
Creating Age-Friendly Spaces
136(1)
Transportation
137(1)
Outdoor Spaces and Public Buildings
138(1)
Social and Civic Life
138(1)
Housing
139(1)
Sociological Tools and Everyday Conversations
139(1)
Confronting Social Problems 6.4 Cultivating Age-Friendly Awareness
140(1)
Check Your Understanding
140(1)
Conclusion
140(1)
Review
141(1)
Discussion Questions
141(1)
Key Terms
142(1)
Chapter 7 Making Sense of Migration and Immigration
143(24)
What Is Migration?
143(3)
Confronting Social Problems 7.1 How Many Immigrants?
145(1)
Check Your Understanding
146(1)
The Social Construction of Immigrants as a Problem
146(6)
The United States and the Social Construction of "Them"
146(3)
The Incorporation of Newcomers: What Becomes of "Them"?
149(1)
Confronting Social Problems 7.2 Identifying Assimilation Patterns in Quantitative Data
149(3)
Check Your Understanding
152(1)
Social Problems Causing Migration
152(3)
Personal Factors
152(1)
"Push" Factors
153(1)
"Pull" Factors
153(1)
Intervening Obstacles
154(1)
Confronting Social Problems 7.3 Push-Pull Profile
154(1)
Check Your Understanding
154(1)
Social Problems Affecting Immigrants
155(2)
Discrimination
156(1)
Confronting Social Problems 7.4 Immigrant Challenges
156(1)
Check Your Understanding
157(1)
Social Problems Caused by Immigration
157(10)
Undocumented Immigration in the United States
158(2)
The Undocumented Children of Undocumented Immigrants
160(1)
Confronting Social Problems 7.5 Challenges for Host Societies
160(1)
Dealing With Refugees and Asylees
161(2)
Check Your Understanding
163(1)
Conclusion
163(1)
Review
163(1)
Discussion Questions
164(1)
Key Terms
165(2)
Chapter 8 Researching Environmental Problems
167(24)
The Link Between Environmental and Social Problems
167(5)
Using and Losing Resources
168(1)
Treadmills of Production and Consumption
168(1)
Why Do We Always Want More?
169(1)
Increasing Production Increases Material Waste and Environmental Harm
169(1)
E-Waste
170(1)
Reducing Waste
171(1)
Confronting Social Problems 8.1 Giving Up Technology
171(1)
Check Your Understanding
172(1)
The Environmental Costs of Powering Our Lives
172(4)
Growing Energy Demand Pushes Us to Riskier Energy Sources
173(1)
Nuclear Energy
173(1)
Confronting Social Problems 8.2 Communicating Danger
174(1)
Renewable Energy as a Solution to Increasing Energy Demands
174(1)
Past and Present Impediments to Renewable Energy
174(1)
The Coming Demise of Fossil Fuel and the Rise of Renewable Energy
175(1)
Check Your Understanding
175(1)
Recognizing and Curbing Climate Change
176(4)
What Is Climate Change?
176(1)
Scientific Consensus
176(1)
Where Do Greenhouse Gases Come From?
176(1)
Effects of Climate Change
177(1)
Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change
178(2)
Confronting Social Problems 8.3 Climate Change
180(1)
Check Your Understanding
180(1)
Food and Agriculture
180(3)
Technological Advancements in Agriculture: The Good and the Bad
181(1)
Treadmills of Production in Agriculture
181(1)
Confronting Social Problems 8.4 Pros and Cons of Industrial Agriculture
182(1)
Solutions to Problems in the Food System
183(1)
Check Your Understanding
183(1)
Confronting Environmental Injustice
183(8)
Historical Context of the Environmental Justice Movement
184(2)
Confronting Social Problems 8.5 Historic Land Use and Modern Environmental Injustice
186(1)
Check Your Understanding
186(1)
Conclusion
186(1)
Review
187(1)
Discussion Questions
188(1)
Key Terms
189(2)
Chapter 9 Contesting Crime
191(18)
The Social Construction of Crime
192(3)
Distinguishing Deviance and Crime
192(1)
The Case of Murder
193(1)
Confronting Social Problems 9.1 When You are Expected to Commit Crimes
194(1)
Check Your Understanding
194(1)
Mistakes in Claim Construction
195(6)
Confronting Social Problems 9.2 Fear of Crime Versus Reality
197(1)
The Media
197(2)
Claims-Making With Statistics
199(1)
Check Your Understanding
200(1)
Class, Race, Gender, and Critical Criminology
201(2)
Confronting Social Problems 9.3 Critical Race Theory
202(1)
Check Your Understanding
203(1)
Social Problems That Cause Crime
203(6)
Problems With the Criminal Justice System
203(1)
Neighborhood Problems
204(1)
Economic Structures
204(2)
Confronting Social Problems 9.4 Applying Theories to Reduce Crime
206(1)
Check Your Understanding
207(1)
Conclusion
207(1)
Review
207(1)
Discussion Questions
208(1)
Key Terms
208(1)
Chapter 10 Understanding War and Terrorism
209(20)
Understanding War as a Social Problem
210(2)
Sociological Theories of War
211(1)
Marx's and Weber's Perspectives on War
211(1)
Total Wars, Just Wars, and the Functions of Wars
211(1)
Confronting Social Problems 10.1 War and Terrorism
212(1)
Check Your Understanding
212(1)
Seeing War as a Social Problem
212(3)
The Vietnam War
213(1)
War in the 21st Century
213(1)
New Technology and New Ways to Fight Wars
214(1)
Confronting Social Problems 10.2 War and Social Problems
214(1)
Check Your Understanding
215(1)
War's Impact on Society
215(4)
Guns Versus Butter
216(1)
Individual Costs of War
216(2)
The Hidden Wounds of War
218(1)
Confronting Social Problems 10.3 Guns vs. Butter
219(1)
Check Your Understanding
219(1)
Understanding Terrorism as a Social Problem
219(3)
Confronting Social Problems 10.4 Defining Terrorism 1
220(1)
9/11 and Terrorism as a Social Problem
220(1)
Terrorism, the Media, and Moral Panics
221(1)
Check Your Understanding
222(1)
Consequences of Terrorism
222(2)
Confronting Social Problems 10.5 Consequences of Terrorism
222(1)
The Social and Individual Costs of Terrorism
223(1)
Check Your Understanding
224(1)
Confronting War and Terrorism
224(5)
International Efforts to Prevent and Mitigate the Effects of War
224(1)
Social Movements
225(1)
Stopping Terrorism
225(1)
Confronting Social Problems 10.6 Efforts to Stop War and Terrorism
225(1)
Check Your Understanding
226(1)
Conclusion
226(1)
Review
226(1)
Discussion Questions
227(1)
Key Terms
227(1)
Note
227(2)
PART III INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS
229(104)
Chapter 11 Identifying Problems in the Criminal Justice System
231(22)
The U.S. Criminal Justice System
232(3)
Components of the Criminal Justice System
232(1)
Criminalization
233(1)
Types of Criminal Offenses
234(1)
Origins of Law---Consensus Versus Conflict
234(1)
Confronting Social Problems 11.1 Changing Laws Over Time
234(1)
Questioning the Criminal Justice System
235(1)
Check Your Understanding
235(1)
Policing
235(5)
Policing as Dangerous Work
235(1)
Broken Windows
236(1)
Race and Policing
236(1)
Traffic Stops
236(1)
Stop and Frisk
237(1)
Police Use of Force
237(1)
A "Ferguson Effect"?
238(1)
Improving Policing
239(1)
Confronting Social Problems 11.2 Measuring Your Legal Cynicism
239(1)
Check Your Understanding
240(1)
Courts and Corrections
240(7)
Why Do We Punish?
241(1)
The Wealth Gap in Justice
241(1)
Jail or Bail?
241(1)
Reforming Bail
242(1)
If You Cannot Afford an Attorney
242(1)
The White-Collar Premium
243(1)
Confronting Social Problems 11.3 What Would You Do?
244(1)
Mass Incarceration
244(1)
Mass Probation and Parole
245(2)
Check Your Understanding
247(1)
Criminal Records
247(6)
The "Ban-the-Box" Movement
248(1)
Confronting Social Problems 11.4 Criminal Activities Checklist
249(1)
Expungement of Criminal Records
250(1)
Check Your Understanding
250(1)
Conclusion
250(1)
Review
250(1)
Discussion Questions
251(1)
Key Terms
251(2)
Chapter 12 Discovering Problems in the Family
253(20)
What Is a Family?
253(2)
Personal Definitions Versus Official/Legal Definitions
254(1)
Confronting Social Problems 12.1 Definitions of Family
254(1)
Private Versus Public Views of Families
254(1)
Three Ways to Think About Social Problems as They Pertain to Families
255(1)
Check Your Understanding
255(1)
Social Construction of Families as Problems
255(7)
Cultural Shifts in Marital Expectations
256(1)
Confronting Social Problems 12.2 Relationship Expectations
256(1)
Family Structure and the Construction of the "Ideal" Family
256(1)
Heterosexual Marriage
257(1)
Same-Sex Marriage
258(2)
Divorce
260(1)
Cohabitation
260(1)
Nonmarital Childbearing
260(1)
Social Construction of "Bad Mothers"
261(1)
Check Your Understanding
261(1)
Family Problems as Social Problems
262(7)
Child Marriage
262(1)
Family Violence
263(1)
Child Maltreatment
263(1)
Intimate Partner Violence and Coercion
263(3)
Elder Abuse
266(1)
Paid Work and Caregiving
266(2)
Confronting Social Problems 12.3 Parental Regrets Online
268(1)
Check Your Understanding
268(1)
Social Problems Affecting Families
269(4)
Poverty's Effects on Families
269(1)
Confronting Social Problems 12.4 Parenting on the Minimum Wage
270(1)
Debt and Families
270(1)
Mass Incarceration's Effects on Families
270(1)
Check Your Understanding
271(1)
Conclusion
271(1)
Review
271(1)
Discussion Questions
271(1)
Key Terms
272(1)
Chapter 13 Pursuing Equity in Education
273(22)
Education and Schooling
274(1)
Confronting Social Problems 13.1 Making the Familiar Strange: Formal Schooling
274(1)
Check Your Understanding
275(1)
The Purpose of Education
275(3)
Status Attainment: Schools as the Great Equalizer
275(1)
Social Reproduction
276(1)
Critical Pedagogy
276(1)
Confronting Social Problems 13.2 Legislative Bans of Critical Race Theory
277(1)
Check Your Understanding
277(1)
Social Problems in Education and Schools
278(8)
Education: A Human Right Not Accessible to All
278(1)
Inequality Among Schools
278(2)
Funding
280(2)
Segregation
282(1)
Inequity Within Schools
282(1)
Academic Tracking
282(1)
Discipline Disparities
283(1)
Hidden Curriculum
284(1)
Confronting Social Problems 13.3 How Schools Create and Maintain Inequality
284(1)
Inequality Outside of Schools
285(1)
Check Your Understanding
286(1)
Reforms That Can Improve Education Systems
286(9)
Expanding Access to Education
286(1)
Changing the School Experience
287(1)
Supplementing Classroom Instruction
288(1)
Restructuring Education Funding
289(1)
Confronting Social Problems 13.4 Education Equity
290(1)
Diversifying the Teaching Profession
291(1)
Check Your Understanding
291(1)
Conclusion
291(1)
Review
291(1)
Discussion Questions
292(1)
Key Terms
293(2)
Chapter 16 Prioritizing Health and Health Care Inequalities
295(18)
Understanding Health and Health-Related Social Problems
295(5)
How Our Understanding of Illness Affects Our Responses to It
296(2)
Medicalization
298(1)
Confronting Social Problems 14.1 The Social Construction of Health and Illness Through Advertisements
299(1)
Demedicalization
300(1)
Check Your Understanding
300(1)
How Social Problems Affect Health
300(5)
Economic Inequality and Health
300(2)
Racial Inequality and Health
302(1)
Gender Inequality and Health
303(1)
Social Isolation and Health
304(1)
Confronting Social Problems 14.2 Examining Social Determinants of Health
304(1)
Check Your Understanding
305(1)
Social Problems and Inequalities in the Health Care System
305(2)
Inequality in the Health Care System
306(1)
Confronting Social Problems 14.3 Imagining Health Policy
306(1)
Check Your Understanding
307(1)
Facing Health Challenges Collectively
307(6)
Confronting Social Problems 14.4 How You Can Make a Difference
310(1)
Check Your Understanding
310(1)
Conclusion
311(1)
Review
311(1)
Discussion Questions
311(1)
Key Terms
312(1)
Chapter 15 Realizing the Power---and Vulnerability---of Institutions
313(20)
Why Does a Society Need Social Institutions?
314(3)
Societies That Do Not Have Effective Institutions
315(1)
Karachi, Pakistan
315(1)
Venezuela
316(1)
Confronting Social Problems 15.1 Belonging to Groups and Institutions
316(1)
Check Your Understanding
317(1)
Why Do Institutions Fail?
317(2)
Institutional Failure in Venezuela and Pakistan
318(1)
Confronting Social Problems 15.2 Legitimate and Illegitimate Power
318(1)
Check Your Understanding
318(1)
The Rise of Authoritarian Governments
319(2)
Authoritarianism: Here Now and Nothing New
319(1)
Activating Authoritarianism
319(1)
Sowing Doubt in Democratic Institutions---"I Alone Can Fix It"
320(1)
Confronting Social Problems 15.3 Democracy Versus Authoritarianism
321(1)
Check Your Understanding
321(1)
Declining Confidence in Institutions in the United States
321(4)
Loss of Confidence in the Media
321(2)
Declining Satisfaction With Democracy
323(1)
Confronting Social Problems 15.4 Satisfaction With Democracies
323(1)
Check Your Understanding
323(2)
How Can Social Problems Weaken Institutions?
325(3)
The Great Depression: The New Deal in the United States and the Rise of Fascism in Germany
325(2)
Social Media and Tribalism
327(1)
Confronting Social Problems 15.5 How Can Social Problems Weaken Institutions?
327(1)
Check Your Understanding
327(1)
How Can We Save Our Social Institutions?
328(5)
Confronting Social Problems 15.6 The Tragedy of the Commons
328(1)
Restoring Trust in Government
328(1)
Organize effectively
329(1)
Vote
329(1)
How Sociology Can Help You Save Our Social Institutions
330(1)
Check Your Understanding
330(1)
Conclusion
331(1)
Review
331(1)
Discussion Questions
331(1)
Key Terms
332(1)
Appendix: Addressing Social Problems Through Service-Learning
333(10)
Fundamentals of Service-Learning
333(5)
Reflection as a Key Element of Service-Learning
334(1)
Benefits of Service-Learning
334(1)
Students
334(1)
Community
335(1)
Faculty
335(1)
The Institution
335(1)
Types of Service-Learning
335(1)
Traditional Service-Learning
335(1)
Critical Service-Learning
336(1)
Research-Focused Service-Learning
336(1)
Service-Learning in Online Courses
337(1)
Assessment of Service-Learning
338(1)
Reflection Activities
339(1)
Tips for Faculty Considering Service-Learning
339(1)
Managing Risk and Liability Issues
339(1)
Working With Community Partners
339(1)
Service-Learning in a Social Problems Course
340(3)
Creating a Service-Learning Course
340(1)
Preparing the Syllabus
340(1)
Sample Goals for a Social Problems Course
341(1)
Sample Objectives for a Social Problems Course
341(1)
Sample Assignments for a Social Problems Course
341(1)
Additional Advice for Faculty
342(1)
Glossary 343(8)
References 351(38)
Index 389