This reader of public press articles examines parental and family issues; crime, terrorism and violence; health and health care issues; poverty and inequality; cultural pluralism and affirmative action; cities, urban growth and the quality of life; and global issues. The articles come from sources such as Fortune, Modern Maturity, The Economist and The Nation. This title is supported by the student Web site, Dushkin Online. (http: //www.dushkin.com/online)

UNIT 1. Introduction: The Nature of Social Problems and General Critiques of American Society

1. Social Problems: Definitions, Theories, and Analysis, Harold A. Widdison and H. Richard Delaney, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 1995

2. The Fragmentation of Social Life, D. Stanley Eitzen, Vital Speeches of the Day, July 1, 2000

3. How to Re-Moralize America, Francis Fukuyama, The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1999

UNIT 2. Problems of the Political Economy

Part A. The Polity

4. Who Rules America?, G. William Domhoff, from Who Rules America? Power and Politics in the Year 2000, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1997

5. Setting Right a Dangerous World, John Lewis Gaddis, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 11, 2002

Part B. The Economy

6. The End of Globalization?, Michael Shuman, Utne Reader, July/August 2002

7. In Corporate America, It’s Cleanup Time, Jerry Useem, Fortune, September 16, 2002

8. The Tort Mess, Michael Freedman, Forbes, May 13, 2002

Part C. Problems of Place

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