TY - BOOK AU - AU - Finsterbusch, Kurt, ED - ED - ED - ED - TI - : social problems 07/08 SN - 9780073397344 (paperback) SN - 2 PY - 2008///;copyright 200846 CY - Dubuque, IA PB - McGraw Hill KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Periodicals KW - Social problems KW - United States KW - sears0 KW - Social conditions N1 - Social problems: definitions, theories & analysis / Harold A. Widdison, H. Richard Delaney -- The fragmentation of social life / D. Stanley Eitzen -- How to re-moralize America / Francis Fukuyama -- Who rules America / G. William Domhoff -- Sugar Daddies / Jason Lee Steorts -- Our incompetent government / Richard A. Posner -- Rights, Liberties, and Security: recalibrating the balance after Sept. 11 / Stuart Taylor, Jr. -- Evaluating economic change / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- The new rules / Betsy Morris, Patricia Neering -- Born to buy / Juliet Schor -- Ecopolis now / Fred Pearce -- Alien nation / Michael Maiello, Nicole Ridgway -- The rich and the rest / Sam Pizzigati -- Can extreme poverty be eliminated? / Jeffrey D. Sachs -- The great American pork barrel / Ken Silverstein -- Welfare redux / Christopher Jencks, Joe Swingle, Scott Winship -- Virtual equality, virtual segregation / Norman Kelley -- Why we hate / Margo Monteith, Jeffrey Winters -- Arab America's September 11 / Moustafa Bayoumi -- Human rights, sex trafficking, and prostitution / Alice Leuchtag -- All happy families / Julian Sanchez -- The conundrum of the glass ceiling -- Too many women in college? / Phyllis Rosser -- Can marriage be saved? / Frank Furstenberg -- Overworked, time poor, and abandoned by Uncle Sam / Janet C. Gornick -- Peer marriage / Peter Schwartz -- Against school: how public education cripples our kids and why / John Taylor Gatto -- Can the center find a solution that will hold? / Chester E. Finn, Jr. -- Fixing hospitals / Robert Langreth -- Medical Guesswork / John Carey -- Fighting crime / John J. Donohue -- The aggregate burden of crime / David A. Anderson -- America's most dangerous drug / David J. Jefferson -- Causes and consequences of wrongful convictions / Hugo Adam -- Reforming juvenile justice / Barry Krisberg -- EMP: America's Achilles' heel / Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. -- Homegrown terrorism and the radicalization process / Robert S. Mueller, III -- The challenge of an aging society / Richard D. Lamm & Robert H. Blank -- SOS: we need a Plan B / Lester R. Brown -- By any measure, earth is at the tipping point / Jeffrey Kluger -- The secret nuclear war / Eduardo Goncalves -- Update on the state of the future / Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon -- Embracing today's global economy / John A. Challenger -- Understanding our moment in history / William Van Dusen Wishard; 5 ER -