Full Description
This classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on a broad range of social issues in American society, specifically the complex social problems of the 1960s. Because the volume is structured as a survey, it is neither exhaustive or defi nitive. It does provide a wide range of information about these problems, as well as the many diff erent policy initiatives that were developed to cope with them. Readers can learn a great deal about the common themes, predilections and quandaries that characterized United States responses to the complex problems of the 1960s and the patterns of inequality and injustice prevalent at that time.
The essays were selected to cover the range of substantive problematic issues of the period, the social science perspectives that were brought to bear on them, and the range of social science methodologies used. Finally, the selections emphasize the contributions that can be made to understanding social problems by intensive and rigorous social science research.
Journalists and popular writers use a common sense approach to their study of social problems, and the results are often imaginative and incisive. Th e tools of social scientists produce information and analyses that contribute far more to our understanding than even the most insightful journalist can achieve. Th e selections in this volume highlight the deeper and more fundamental understanding of social issues that can come from rigorous analysis of government statistics, and from special sample surveys, from in-depth ethnographic studies.
Contents
PrefaceIntroduction: The Study of Social ProblemsI. MODERN PERSPECTIVES ON INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS1. The New Egalitarianism - Herbert J. Cans2. Liberty and Equality - Harold Laski3. Social Inequality and Social Integration - John H. Goldthorpe4. On the Origin of Inequality Among Men - Ralf Dahrendorf5. The Dynamics of Distributive Systems - Gerhard Lenski6. Policy Analysis and Equality - Martin ReinII. CLASS INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS7. Poverty in the United States - Lee Rainwater8. The American Distribution of Income: A Structural Problem - Lester C. Thurow and Robert Lucas9. The Welfare Crisis - Martin Rein10. The Guaranteed Income - James Tobin11. Education and Inequality 11 a. Inequalities in Higher Education - W. Lee Hansen and Burton A. Weisbrod 11b. The Great Training Robbery - Ivar Berg 11c. Schooling, IQ, and Income - David K. Cohen12. Working-class Family Life-styles and Social Alienation - Lee Rainwater13. Housing and Inequality 13a. The Slum and Its Problems - Lee Rainwater 13b. Improving Federal Housing Subsidies - Bernard J. Frieden14. Health and Inequality 14a. Class and the Chance for Life - Aaron Antonovsky 14b. The Lower Class: Health, Illness, and Medical Institutions - Lee Rainwater15. Who Needs Organized Family Planning Services? - Frederick S. Jaffe, Joy G. Dryfoos, and George Varky16. Taxes and Inequality - Joseph A. PechmanIII. INEQUALITIES OF STATUS17. Black Unrest in the 1960s - Thomas F. Pettigrew18. The 1960s: Decade of Progress for Blacks? - Reynolds Farley and Albert Hermalin19. Attitudes Toward Racial Integration - Andrew M, Greeley and Paul B. Sheatsley20. When the Melting Pot Doesn't Melt - Nathan Glazer21. Sex Inequality 2la. Sex Equality: The Beginnings of an Ideology - Alice S. Rossi 21b. Women's Rights and the Drive for Day Care - Charles L. Schultze, Edward R. Fried, Alice M. Rivlin, and Nancy H. Teeters22. Colonialism: The Case of the Mexican Americans - Joan W. MooreIV. INEQUALITIES OF POWER23. Equality of Voting - Walter Dean Burnham24. Community Action and Neighborhood Control 24a. Radical Decentralization - Michael Lipsky 24b. Lower Class Life-styles and Community Action - Lee Rainwater25. Power and Symbol in Administrative Regulation - Murray Edelman26. The Vietnam War and Presidential Power - Daniel Ellsberg27. American Military Policy and Advanced Weapons - James R. Kurth28. The Politics of Culture in America - Herbert J. CansV. INTERNATIONAL STRATIFICATION AND INEQUALITIES29. The Third World in International Stratification - Irving Louis Horowitz 30. World Population Crisis - Kingsley Davis31. Inequality among Nations and International Redistribution - Ernst MichanekVI. CONFLICTS OF EFFICIENCY, CHOICE, AND EQUALITY32. Reason and National Goals - Thomas Nagel33. Individual Adaptation and Collective Results - Thomas C. Schelling34. Inequality, Affluence, and Environmental Problems - Barry Commoner35. The City as Sandbox - George Sterniieb36. Metropolitan Dispersal and Growth - Commission on Population Growth and the American FutureIndex
