Contributor
Ritzer, George.
Imprint:Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2004.
Descriptionxi, 687 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Social problems : a comparative international perspective / George Ritzer. - Theoretical issues in the study of social problems and deviance / Joel Best. - Methodological issues in the study of social problems / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. - Social problems and public policy / Tim Blackman, Teeside and Roberta Woods. - Social Problems. Population change / Sonalde Desai. - Ecological problems / Steven Yearley. - Global inequality / Salvatore J. Babones and Jonathan H. Turner. - Racism in comparative perspective / Joe R. Feagin and Pinar Batura. - Ethnic conflict as a global social problem / Thomas D. Hall and Lester M. Jones. - Gender inequality / Amy S. Wharton. - Urban problems in global perspective / Chigon Kim and Mark Gottdiener. - Work-related social problems / Teresa A. Sullivan. - The media and social problems / Douglas Kellner. - Consumption as a social problem / Douglas J. Goodman. - Family problems in global perspective / Felix M. Berardo and Constance L. Shehan. - Racial and ethnic educational inequality in global perspective / Caroline Hodges Persell, Richard Arum, and Kathryn Seufert. - Health as a social problem / William C. Cockerham. - How medical care systems become social problems / Andrew Twaddle. - Aids as a social problem : the creation of social pariahs in the management of an epidemic / Bronwen Lichtenstein. - War, militarism and national security / Ian Roxborough. - Sea change : the modern terrorist environment in perspective / Gus Martin. - The geopolitics of mass destruction : how genocide became a global social problem / David Norman Smith.
Note:Globalization / John Boli. - Technology and social problems / Frank Webster and Mark Erickson, Aston. - The internet as a global social problem / Gili S. Drori. - Risk / John Tulloch. - Deviance. Crime / Michael Tonry. - Juvenile delinquency / Mark C. Stafford. - Drug use as a global social problem / Erich Goode. - The sexual spectacle : making a public culture of sexual problems / Ken Plummer. - Modern day folk devils and the problem of children's presence in the global sex trade / Julia O'Connell Davidson. - Mental illness as a social problem / Howard B. Kaplan. - Disability as a global issue / Gary L. Albrecht. - Corruption as a global social problem / Gary LaFree and Nancy Morris.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
