Social Problems - Hardcover

Julian, Joseph; Kornblum, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131011480 ISBN 13: 9780131011489

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1994

Synopsis

This text probes the nature and causes of each major social problem and then explores social control and action with respect to each. Coverage includes: the Clinton Administration's health care reform proposals; drug use; gangs and guns; residential segregation; sexual harrasment and date rape; changing norms of parenthood, including gay and lesbian parents; China's population control policy; and the Bosnian and Middle Eastern conflicts.

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Dennis Veleber Montana State University Great Falls College of Technology Deva Chopyak Cosmunes River College Jennifer Chernega Winona State University Karen Colvin University of Baltimore Raab Bonni Dominican College

About the Author

William Kornblum conducts research on urban, social ecology, and community studies. Among his publications are: At Sea in the City: New York from the Water’s Edge; Blue Collar Community, a study of the steel mill neighborhoods of  South Chicago;  Growing Up Poor and Uptown Kids, written with Terry Williams, and West 42nd Street, the Bright Lights,  which  during the 1980s became a guide to understanding the street life of lower Times Square.  He has served as a social scientist for the U.S. Department of Interior and worked on  the development of  national parks and environmental reserves in the nation's metropolitan regions. He is also the author of two popular undergraduate textbooks, Social Problems (Pearson) and Sociology in a Changing World (Wadsworth). Kornblum received his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago (1971) and his undergraduate degree in biology from Cornell (1961)  He taught physics and chemistry as  a  Peace Corps Volunteer in Ivory Coast (1962-63) and was on the faculty at the University of Washington before he came to the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1973.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131011480
• ISBN 13: 9780131011489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576