Social Problems In Global Perspective

The global high-tech economy has generated a technological and scientific productive miracle. But along with the miracle has come problems. This important book provides a detailed account of some of these problems.

Barbara J. Denison is Assistant Professor of Sociology and directs the Graduate Program in Organizational Leadership & Development at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. William H. Swatos, Jr. is Executive Officer of the Association for the Sociology of Religion and of the Religious Research Association. Ronald M. Glassman is Professor of Sociology at William Paterson University.

Foreword

v

Prologue: Globalization and Social Problems: Has the High Technology Revolution Made Life Better or Worse?

vii

1. Sociology, Social Problems, and the New Global Culture

1

(14)

2. Doing Something About Social Problems: Facts, Values, and Political Reality

15

(16)

3. World Religions on a Shrinking Planet: The Scientific World View and Reactions to it - Fundamentalist Movements, Cults, and Secular Humanism

31

(28)

4. Marriage and Family: Love and Hate? The Decline of the Extended Family, Women's Liberation, and Divorce

59

(40)

5. Life Chances, Life Choices: Rape, Unwanted Pregnancy, and Abortion

99

(24)

6. Sexualities and Beyond: Gays, Lesbians, and Gender in the Global World; AIDS as a Social Problem

123

(26)

7. Societal Time Bombs: The Population Explosion and Ageism

149

(28)

8. High Technology, Universal Health Insurance, and Wellness

177

(20)

9. Class Structures and Poverty in Global Perspective

197

(30)

10. Hunger and Homelessness around the World

227

(24)

11. Education in a Multicultural World

251

(26)

12. The Culture of Violence: Crime and Success in the USA and Around the World

277

(34)

13. Growing Up Drugged: Human Anxieties and Escape from Reality

311

(34)

14. The Politics of Ethnic Warfare and Global Terrorism

345

(32)

Bibliography

377

(4)

About the Authors

381

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Social Problems In Global Perspective

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