D. Stanley Eitzen

Understanding Society

In Conflict and Order

Maxine Baca Zinn

A collection of articles, drawn from both scholarly and popular sources, that explore the process of globalization and how it shapes societies and groups. Focus is placed on the United States, its role in the globalization process, and whether the effects of globalization can be viewed as beneficial or harmful to society.

The Transformation of Social Worlds

Globalization

George Harvey Sage

This text examines specific cases where states and cities are ahead of the federal government in providing solutions to social problems. States and cities are sometimes ahead of the federal government in providing solutions to social problems. The federal bureaucracy often prefers no change to change. Congress is sometimes paralyzed by party and ideological differences resulting in stagnation. In this vacuum, some states provide innovative programs to solve social problems that may be applicable at the federal level. This book examines specific examples of state and local initiatives to solve these representative social problems: undemocratic practices, poverty, inadequate wages for the working poor, unequal educational opportunity by class and race, the inadequate and inefficient health care system, the environmental crisis, and the decaying or inadequate infrastructure.

Lessons from State and Local Governments

Solutions to Social Problems

Doug A. Timmer

This comprehensive collection focuses on a definition of crime, different types of crime, criminal justice, law and policing and courts and corrective sentencing. Each section includes a general introduction to the issue and two contrasting readings which represent each side of the argument.

Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice

Crime in the Streets and Crime in the Suites

Doug A Timmer

Kathryn D. Talley

D Stanley Eitzen

The major theme in this book is that people are homeless because of structural arrangements and trends that result in extreme impoverishment and a shortage of affordable housing in U.S. cities. It explains the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families.

Extreme Poverty And The Urban Housing Crisis

Paths To Homelessness

This book explains America's love of sport just as it reveals sport's darker side - the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, and media grandstanding.

Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

Fair and Foul

Explains America's love of sport just as it reveals sport's darker side--the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, and media grandstanding. Visit our website for sample chapters!

"With revisions and updates throughout, the fifth edition of "Fair and Foul" explores America's love of sport and also it's darker side. Updates include further attention to how race, class, and gender relate to the uneven playing field in sports; a new discussion of sexuality as a divisive factor in sport; and numerous new case studies and examples"--

D. Stanley Eitzen

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