Private Troubles and Public Issues
Social Problems in the Postmodern Era
Published on 24. December 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-0-15-501368-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book employs the paradigm advocated by C. Wright Mills in THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION. The theme centers on how social problems directly impact the personal lives of students and other citizens in society. The SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION paradigm used throughout the text provides an integrated view of social problems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
850 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-15-501368-1 (9780155013681)
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Content
I. The Sociological Imagination: A Paradigm for Studying Social Problems. 1. Social Problems in the Postmodern Era. 2. Social Structure and Contradiction: The Mass Society and the American Dream. 3. The Mass Media: Alienation, and Micro Social Problems. 4. Social Problems: The Failure of Dominant Ideology. II. Institutional Problems of Social Structure Contradiction. 5. The Problems of the American Political Economy. 6. The Politics of Postmodern Crises: The Scandalization of America. 7. Postmodern Environmental Crises: Alienation, Mass Consumption, and the Overpopulation Debate. 8. The American Crime Factory: The Crime-Drug Nexus. 9. The Medical Industrial Complex: Problems of Health and Mental Health. III. The Sociology of Oppression: Problems of Inequality and Alienation. 10. Poverty and the Underclass: Global and National Inequality. 11. The Sociology of Oppression: Problems of Race and Ethnicity. 12. The Sociology of Oppression: Gender and Sexual Orientation. 13. The Sociology of Oppression: The Paradox of Ageism. 14. The Nature of Postmodern Alienation: The Social Problems of Everyday Life.