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Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from Other Societies

Autor D. Stanley Eitzen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2009
This reader examines how other advanced industrial societies have dealt with social problems with relative success and looks how these strategies may be applicable to the United States. For each social problem considered, several articles have been selected. These articles either describe the situation in a single country or in multiple countries, or expressly contrast the situation of a country or countries with the United States.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780205698349
ISBN-10: 0205698344
Pagini: 217
Dimensiuni: 175 x 231 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:5Nouă
Editura: Allyn & Bacon
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States

Cuprins

IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
 
 
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:




Part One: Introduction
Section 1: The Comparative Approach to Social Problems

Part Two: Problems of Inequality
Section 2: Poverty
Section 3: Income and Wealth Inequality
Section 4: Gender
Section 5: Sexual OrientatioN Section 6:  Age
 
Part Three: Institutional Problems
Section 7: Families
Section 8: Schools

Section 9: Work 
Section 10: Health Care and Delivery
 
Part Four:  Problems of People, Resources, and Place
Section 11: Cities
Section 12: Environment

Part Five: Individual Deviance
Section 13: Crime and Crime Control
Section 14: Drugs



COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:



Preface


Part One: Introduction


Section 1: The Comparative Approach to Social Problems
1.  U. S. Social Problems in Comparative Perspective, D. Stanley Eitzen (revised)
2.  The European Social Model, T. R. Reid
3.  The Swedish Welfare State, D. Stanley Eitzen (revised)
4.  How Canada Stole the American Dream, Duncan Hood (new)
 

Part Two: Problems of Inequality


Section 2: Poverty
5.  Poverty, Work, and Policy:  The United States in Comparative Perspective, Gary
            Burtless and Timothy M. Smeeding (new)
6.  How Other Countries Fight the War on Poverty, Sid Ryan (new)
 
Section 3: Income and Wealth Inequality
7.  Income and Wealth Inequality, Americans for Democratic Action (new)
8.  Inequality Here and There, Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss
 
Section 4: Gender
9.  Europe Crawls Ahead, Megan Rowling
10.  Gender Equality in Sweden, Swedish Institute (new)
 
Section 5: Sexual Orientation
11.  Social Shift Opens Door to Gay Marriage Plan (Canada), Clifford Krauss
12.  Gay Rights and European Citizenship, Joydeep Sengupta

 
Section 6:  Age

13   As Good As It Gets: What Country Takes the Best Care of its Older Citizens?  Mike Edwards
14.  We Should Rejoice in an Ageing Society, So Long as We Plan Properly for It, Hamish McRae
15.  We’re Not Finnished With You Yet, Gail Edmondson (new)
 
Part Three: Institutional Problems


Section 7: Families
16. Atlantic Passages:  How Europe Supports Working Parents and Their Children, Janet C. Gornick (new)
17.  The Father Generation, Rainer Stumpf (new)
18.  Teen Pregnancy:  Trends and Lessons Learned, Heather Boonstra (new)
 
Section 8: Schools
19. Early Childhood Education and Care in Advanced Industrialized Countries, Sheila B. Kamerman (new)
20. Learning from South Korean Schools, David J. Lynch (new)
21.  A World Transformed:  How Other Countries Are Preparing Students for the Interconnected World of the 21st Century, Vivien Steward (new)

 
Section 9: Work 
22. The Vanishing American Vacation, Don Monkerud (new)
23. A New WPA? Ryan A. Dodd (new)

 
Section 10: Health Care and Delivery

24. International Health Systems, Physicians for a National Health Program
25.  Has Canada Got the Cure? Holly Dressel (new)
 

Part Four:  Problems of People, Resources, and Place


Section 11: Cities

26. New Lessons from the Old World, Jay Walljasper
27. I Love Paris on a Bus, a Bike, a Train and in Anything but a Car, Serge Schmemann (new).
 
Section 12: Environment
28.  Flush with Energy,  Thomas L. Friedman (new)
29.  Scandinavia Gets Serious on Global Warming, Bruce E. Johansen (new) 
30. The $6.66-a Gallon-Solution, Simon Romero

 
Part Five: Individual Deviance



Section 13: Crime and Crime Control
31.  Lawless, But Gunless, Ken MacQueen (new)
32.  Reducing Crime by Harnessing International Best Practices, Irvin Waller and Brandon C. Welsh
 
Section 14: Drugs
33.  Does Europe Do It Better: Lessons from Holland, Britain and Switzerland, Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
34.  Europe: Curing, Not Punishing, Addicts, Rick Steeves (new)

Recenzii

“While the book is decidedly designed for a college-level audience, it remains accessible to the novice or freshman.  Additionally, the articles are carefully chosen, so as not to bog the reader down with unnecessary minutiae, but rather offer clear and intelligible data and interpretation.” Eric Strayer, Hartnell College                       
 
“I highly recommend Eitzen’s Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from Other Societies for any course that studies U.S. social problems.  I have found it to be a real eye-opener for my students and a great way to introduce them to primary source material.”
Eric Strayer, Hartnell College
 
“The Eitzen text is a valuable component to the course [Stratification] Students always clamor for answer to troubling social problems and Eitzen’s text provides me an excellent set of readings to address the student’s desire to know ways others have dealt with problematic issues.”
Douglas F. George, UCA           

â While the book is decidedly designed for a college-level audience, it remains accessible to the novice or freshman. Additionally, the articles are carefully chosen, so as not to bog the reader down with unnecessary minutiae, but rather offer clear and intelligible data and interpretation.â
Eric Strayer, Hartnell College
â I highly recommend Eitzenâ s Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from Other Societies for any course that studies U.S. social problems. I have found it to be a real eye-opener for my students and a great way to introduce them to primary source material.â
Eric Strayer, Hartnell College
â The Eitzen text is a valuable component to the course [Stratification] Students always clamor for answer to troubling social problems and Eitzenâ s text provides me an excellent set of readings to address the studentâ s desire to know ways others have dealt with problematic issues.â
Douglas F. George, UCA

Notă biografică

D. Stanley Eitzen (Ph. D., University of Kansas) is professor emeritus of sociology at Colorado State University, where he taught for twenty-one years, the last as John N. Stern Distinguished Professor.  Prior to that he taught at the University of Kansas.  He is the former editor of The Social Science Journal.  His scholarship has focused on social inequality, homelessness, poverty, power, family, criminology, and the sociology of sport.  He has authored or co-authored twenty-four books on these topics.  His books that fit closely with Solutions to Social Problems:  Lessons from Other Societies 5e are Social Problems 11e, Solutions to Social Problems From the Bottom Up:  Successful Social Movements,   Solutions to Social Problems from the Top Down:  The Role of Government, Solutions to Social Problems:  Lessons from State and Local Governments,  and Globalization:  The Transformation of Social Worlds.

Caracteristici

The reader is divided into five parts: 
  • Part One focuses on two important foundational issues: first, a comparison of the United States with other advanced industrial societies on a number of dimensions; and second, a consideration of why the United States fails to adopt social policies that appear to solve social problems elsewhere. 
  • Part Two examines inequality (poverty, income and wealth inequality, gender, sexual orientation, and age).
  • Part Three looks at institutional problems (families, schools, work, and health care). 
  • Part Four concentrates on problems of people, resources, and place, focusing on cities and the environment. 
  • Part Five addresses the attempts by societies to control individual deviance (crime and drugs).
Each of the 14 chapters sections focuses on a particular social problem.  Each section contains an introduction written by Eitzen to frame the issues, followed by 2-3 readings that explore how others societies have attempted to solve their problems.

Caracteristici noi

Twenty New Articles
4.  How Canada Stole the American Dream, Duncan Hood
5.  Poverty, Work, and Policy:  The United States in Comparative Perspective, Gary  Burtless and Timothy M. Smeeding
6.  How Other Countries Fight the War on Poverty, Sid Ryan
7.  Income and Wealth Inequality, Americans for Democratic Action
10.  Gender Equality in Sweden, Swedish Institute
15.  We’re Not Finnished With You Yet’ Gail Edmondson
16. Atlantic Passages:  How Europe Supports Working Parents and Their Children, Janet C. Gornick
17.  The Father Generation, Rainer Stumpf
18.  Teen Pregnancy:  Trends and Lessons Learned,” Heather Boonstra
19. Early Childhood Education and Care in Advanced Industrialized Countries, Sheila B. Kamerman
20. Learning from South Korean Schools, David J. Lynch
21.  A World Transformed:  How Other Countries Are Preparing Students for the Interconnected World of the 21st Century, Vivien Steward
22. The Vanishing American Vacation, Don Monkerud
23. A New WPA? Ryan A. Dodd
25.  Has Canada Got the Cure? Holly Dressel
2 7. I Love Paris on a Bus, a Bike, a Train and in Anything but a Car, Serge Schmemann
28.  Flush with Energy,  Thomas L. Friedman
29.  Scandinavia Gets Serious on Global Warming, Bruce E. Johansen
31.  Lawless, But Gunless, Ken MacQueen
34.  Europe:  Curing, Not Punishing, Addicts, Rick Steeves
 
Two Revised Articles
1.  U. S. Social Problems in Comparative Perspective, D. Stanley Eitzen
3.  The Swedish Welfare State, D. Stanley Eitzen

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This reader examines how other advanced industrial societies have dealt with social problems with relative success and looks how these strategies may be applicable to the United States. For each social problem considered, several articles have been selected. These articles either describe the situation in a single country or in multiple countries, or expressly contrast the situation of a country or countries with the United States.