Berch Berberoglu (ed.)

This book provides critical perspectives on social issues and social problems, focusing on a variety of topics that affect life in the United States today.

The book consists of 21 essays, ranging from class structure to modern corporations, the state, education, poverty, cities, race relations, women, ecology, the Third World, and social movements.  It provides a comprehensive analysis of U.S. society that is written in clear, concise, and popular language.

This book is a powerful and fitting companion to introductory and social problems texts in sociology.  It provides a much needed critical approach to interpret the rapidly changing events around us.

 

Preface and Acknowledgments

About the Editor

About the Contributors

Introduction

1. Class Structure and Class Struggle in Capitalist Society

   Yow-Suen Sen and Alvin Y. So

    

2. Surplus Value and Profits:  The Exploitation of Labor

   Victor Perlo

    

3. Increasing Class Polarization in the United States:  The Growth of Wealth and Income Inequality

   Jerry S. Kloby   

    

4. Monopoly, Prices, and Profits: The Concentration of Economic Power in the United States

   Howard J. Sherman

    

5. The Nature of the Modern Corporation: Ownership, Control, and Recent Trends in the U.S. Corporate Structure

   Julia D. Fox

    

6. Alienated Labor and Dignity Denial in Capitalist Society

   Samuel R. Friedman

    

7. New Approaches to the Problems of U.S. Labor

   Jerry Lembcke

    

8. The Origins and Development of the Capitalist State

   Berch Berberoglu 

    

9. The Contradictions of Contemporary American Society

   T.R. Young 

    

10. The Crisis in Education: The Social Implications of Changes in Education in the United States

    Lynda Ann Ewen 

     

11. Education and the Struggle Against Inequality

    Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Stephen Samuel Smith

     

12. Aging and Public Policy in the United States

    Barbara G. Brents

     

13. Urban Social Problems in the United States: Issues in Urban Political Economy

    Robert E. Parker

     

14. The Class Nature of Poverty in the United States: The Immiseration of the U.S.Working Class

    Martha E. Gimenez

     

15. Racism and Capitalism in the United States

    Victor Perlo

     

16. Race, Poverty, Crime and Powerlessness in America's Inner Cities

    Bernard D. Headley

     

17. Women's Realities, Women's Choices:   An Introduction to Theories of Women's Oppression

    Elaine Enarson

     

18. Working Class Women and Women's Movement

    Judy R. Aulette and Walda Katz Fishman

     

19. Capitalism, Uneven Development and Ecological Crisis

    James O'Connor

     

20. Imperialism, Capital Accumulation, and Class Struggle in the Third World

    Berch Berberoglu

     

21. Social Movements and Social Change: The Dynamics of Social Transformation 

    Ted Goertzel

Index   

Publication date:  1991