A. Javier Trevino 
Investigating Social Problems [PDF ebook] 

For the
Third Edition of
Investigating Social Problems, editor A. Javier Treviño, has gathered a panel of top experts to thoroughly examine all aspects of social problems, providing students with a contemporary and authoritative introduction to the field. Each chapter is written by a well-known specialist on the topic being covered. This unique, contributed format ensures that the research and examples described are the most current and relevant available. In addition, the experts use both general theoretical approaches (structural functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism) as well as specialized theories chosen to bring additional insight and analysis to their assigned topics. The text is framed around three major themes: intersectionality (the interplay of race, ethnicity, class, and gender), the global scope of many problems, and how researchers take an evidence-based approach to studying problems.



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Tabela de Conteúdo

PART 1: THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Chapter 1: Sociology and Social Problems – Author: A. Javier Treviño

The Mobility Puzzle

The Sociological Study of Social Problems

The Sociological Imagination

Sociological Research

Three Sociological Theories

Sociological Research

Three Sociological Theories

Applying the Three Theories to Social Problems

Social Policy

Service Sociology and Social Problems

PART 2: PROBLEMS OF INEQUALITY

Chapter 2: Poverty and Class Inequality – Authors: Leslie Hossfeld, E. Brooke Kelly,

Patterns and Trends

Social Class

Inequality

Using Theory to Explain Poverty, Class, and

Specialized Theories Applied to Poverty

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 3: Race and Ethnicity – Author: Saher Selod

Defining Race and Ethnicity in a New

Patterns and Trends

Using Theory to Explain Racial Inequality

Specialized Theories About Racial Inequality

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 4: Gender – Author: Tanetta Andersson

Defining Sex and Gender

The Study of Gender as a Social Problem

Patterns and Trends

Using Theory to Understand Gender Inequality

Specialized Theory: Queer Theory

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 5: Sexualities – Author: Elroi J. Windsor

Understanding Social Problems Related to

Patterns and Trends

Using Theory to Understand Sexual Violence

Specialized Theories in Sexualities and

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 6: Aging – Author: Duane A. Matcha

Is Aging a Social Problem?

Patterns and Trends

Using Theory to Understand Aging

Specialized Theories About Aging

Social Change: What Can You Do?

PART 3: PROBLEMS OF INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 7: Education – Author: Jenny Stuber

Inequalities in Our Education System

Patterns and Trends

US Education System: A Brief History

Using Sociological Theories In Education

Specialized Theories in the Sociology of

Investigating Inequalities in Education

Efforts at Educational Reform

Chapter 8: Media – Authors: William Hoynes and Nicholas Hoynes

How Media Define Social Problems

Patterns and Trends

Debating Media as a Cause of Social Problems

Emerging Social Problems and New Media Technologies

Using Theory to Examine Media and Social

Specialized Theories In Contemporary

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 9: Families – Authors: Heather E. Dillaway and Nancy J. Mezey

Social and Historical Factors Shape Families

Patterns and Trends

Family Problems and Two Institutional

Using Theory to Understand Families

Specialized Theories for Understanding Families

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 10: Work and the Economy – Author: Jacqueline M. Zalewski

Work and the Labor Force

Patterns and Trends

Stakeholders

Using Theory to Examine Work and the

Specialized Theories: Weber and Scientific Management

Social Change: What Can You Do?

PART 4: PROBLEMS OF HEALTH AND SAFETY

Chapter 11: Crime – Authors: Terrence T. Allen, Ahmed Whitt, and

Crime as a Social Problem

Crimes Are Socially Defined

Data Sources and Correlates of Crime

Patterns and Trends

The US Criminal Justice System and Its

Using Theory to Examine Crime

Specialized Theories About Crime

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 12: Drugs – Authors: Carrie B. Oser, Dina Perrone, and

Drugs in Societies

Addiction and Associated Harms

Patterns of Drug Use Across Social Groups

Using Theory to Understand Drug Use

Specialized Theories on Drug Use

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 13: Health – Author: Valerie Leiter

What Are Disease and Illness?

Health Inequities

The US Health Care System and Its Stakeholders

Using Theory to Understand Health

Specialized Theories

Social Change: What Can You Do?

PART 5: PROBLEMS OF GLOBAL IMPACT

Chapter 14: The Environment – Author: J. M. Bacon

Environmental Problems as Social Problems

Patterns and Trends

Using Theory to Examine the Environment

Specialized Theories In Environmental Sociology

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 15: Science and Technology – Author: Michael Mascarenhas

Science and Technology as Socially Defined

Science and Technology as Social Problems

Patterns and Trends

Science, Technology, and Their Stakeholders

Using Theory to Examine Science and Technology

Specialized Theories

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 16: War and Terrorism – Author: Ori Swed

War as a Social Phenomenon

The Changing Face of War

The Cost of War

Terrorism as a Social Phenomenon

Counterterrorism

Using Theory to Examine War and Terrorism

Specialized Theories on War and Terrorism

Social Change: What Can You Do?

Chapter 17: Urbanization – Author: Meghan Ashlin Rich

Urbanization, Growth, and Social Problems

Patterns and Trends

Theoretical Perspectives in Urban Sociology

Specialized Theories in Urban Sociology

Social Change: What Can You Do?

GLOSSARY

REFERENCES

INDEX

Sobre o autor

A. Javier Treviño is the author and editor of several books including The Social Thought of C. Wright Mills (SAGE, 2012), Investigating Social Problems (SAGE, 2014) and C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution: An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). He has served as President of the Justice Studies Association (2000–2002) and as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (2010–2011). He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK (2006), a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Moldova (2009), and since 2014 has been a Visiting Professor in Social and Political Theory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.