Mục lục:
- Studying social problems in the twenty-first century
- Wealth and poverty : U.S. and global economic inequalities
- Racial and ethnic inequality
- Gender inequality
- Inequality based on age
- Inequality based on sexual orientation
- Prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry
- Alcohol and other drugs
- Crime and criminal justice
- Health care : problems of physical and mental illness
- The changing family
- Problems in education
- Problems in politics and the global economy
- Problems in politics and the global economy
- Problems in the media
- Population, global inequality, and the environmental crisis
- Global social problems : war and terrorism
- Can social problems be solved?.