Handbook of Social Problems : A Comparative International Perspective.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I - Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective -- Chapter 2 - Theoretical Issues in the Study of Social Problems and Deviance -- Chapter 3 - Methodological Issues in the Study of Social Problems -- Chapter 4 - Social Problems and Public Policy -- Part II - Social Problems -- Chapter 5 - Population Change -- Chapter 6 - Ecological Problems -- Chapter 7 - Global Inequality -- Chapter 8 - Racism in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 9 - Ethnic Conflict as a Global Social Problem -- Chapter 10 - Gender Inequality -- Chapter 11 - Urban Problems in Global Perspective -- Chapter 12 - Work-Related Social Problems -- Chapter 13 - The Media and Social Problems -- Chapter 14 - Consumption as a Social Problem -- Chapter 15 - Family Problems in Global Perspective -- Chapter 16 - Racial and Ethnic Educational Inequality in Global Perspective -- Chapter 17 - Health as a Social Problem -- Chapter 18 - How Medical Care Systems Become Social Problems -- Chapter 19 - AIDS as a Social Problem: The Creation of Social Pariahs in the Management of an Epidemic -- Chapter 20 - War, Militarism, and National Security -- Chapter 21 - Sea Change: The Modern Terrorist Environment in Perspective -- Chapter 22 - The Rhetoric and Reality of "Mass Destruction": How Genocide Became an International Social Problem -- Chapter 23 - Globalization -- Chapter 24 - Technology and Social Problems -- Chapter 25 - The Internet as a Global Social Problem -- Chapter 26 - Risk -- Chapter 27 - Crime -- Chapter 28 - Juvenile Delinquency -- Chapter 29 - Drug Use as a Global Social Problem -- Chapter 30 - The Sexual Spectacle: Making a Public Culture of Sexual Problems -- Chapter 31 - Modern-Day Folk Devils and the Problem of Children's Presence in the Global Sex Trade -- Chapter 32 - Mental Illness as a Social Problem.

Chapter 33 - Disability as a Global Issue -- Chapter 34 - Corruption as a Global Social Problem -- Index -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors.

The Handbook of Social Problems provides a unique, broadly comparative perspective on the current state of social problems and deviance in a variety of societies around the world. George Ritzer, gathers a number of leading international theorists to examine a wide variety of social problems that afflict the world today.

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