Full Description
Crisis in American Institutions provides students with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. This edition contains seventeen new articles, many addressing the escalating crises of American society in recent years, including the worst economic crisis in decades, the rapid rise in health care costs, the polarizing debate on immigration, and the continuing growth of economic inequality. Others update our coverage of longstanding issues, including the persistence of poverty, the continued growth of mass incarceration, and the politics of global warming.
Contents
IN THIS SECTION:1.) BRIEF2.) COMPREHENSIVESystemic ProblemsPart I Corporate PowerPart II Economic CrisisPart III InequalityPart IV RacismPart V SexismInstitutions in CrisisPart VI The FamilyPart VII The EnvironmentPart VIII Work and WelfarePart IX Health and Medical CarePart X The SchoolsPart XI Crime and JusticePart XII America in the World*Denotes new readingPreface Introduction: Approaches to Social ProblemsSystemic ProblemsPart I Corporate PowerMark Zepezauer: Take the Rich Off Welfare Robert S. McIntyre: Tax Cheats and Their Enablers Neil Postman and Steve Powers: The Commercial *John Luoma: Water for Profit Part II Economic CrisisBarbara Ehrenreich: Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Tamara Draut and Javier Silva: Generation Broke Dale Russakoff: Retirement's Unraveling Safety Net *Robert Kuttner: The Squandering of America Part III Inequality*Dean Baker: Increasing Inequality in the United States *Center for American Progress: From Poverty to ProsperityElliot Liebow: Day by Day: the Lives of Homeless Women David Wessel: As Rich-Poor Gap Widens in the U.S., Class Mobility Stalls Part IV RacismMichael K. Brown et al: The Roots of White Advantage Sentencing Project: Schools and Prisons Daniel Golden: At Many Colleges, the Rich Kids Get Affirmative Action *Aviva Chomsky: They Take Our Jobs Part V SexismThe Economist: The Conundrum of the Glass Ceiling *American Association of University Women: Drawing the Line: Sexual Harassment on Campus Peggy Orenstein: Learning Silence Institutions in CrisisPart VI The Family*Arlene Skolnick: Beyond the 'M' Word: the Tangled Web of Politics and Marriage *Sharon Lerner: The Kids Aren't All Right Brittany Shahmehri: More Than Welcome: Families Come First in Sweden Part VII The Environment James Gustave Speth: A World of Wounds Steve Lerner Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana *Union of Concerned Scientists: Smoke, Mirrors, and Hot Air Part VIII Work and Welfare Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo: Domestica*Peter Edelman, Harry Holzer, and Paul Offner: Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men Herbert Gans: The Underclass Label *Sharon Hays: Flat Broke With Children Part IX Health and Medical CareSusan Starr Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle: Sick Out of Luck *Commonwealth Fund: Why Not the Best? *Lillian Rubin: The Untold Health Care Story: How They Crippled Medicare Part X The Schools*Jonathan Kozol: The Shame of the Nation Ellen Mutari and Melaku Lake: Class Conflict: the Rising Costs of College *Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein: Schools as Scapegoats Jennifer Washburn: Hired Education Part XI Crime and JusticeElliot Currie: The Myth of Leniency Jerome H. Skolnick and John J. DiIulio Jr.Wild Pitch: "Three Strikes You're Out" and Other Bad Calls on Crime *Pew Foundation: One in 100 Ken Silverstein: Unjust Rewards Part XII America in the WorldChalmers Johnson: Blowback Michael T. Klare: Oil, Geography, and War 9/11 Commission: What to Do? A Global Strategy Against Terrorism
