Second Edition

Berch Berberoglu (ed.)

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

This second edition consists of 20 essays, ranging from class structure to modern corporations, the state, education, poverty, cities, race rations, women, ecology, the Third World, and social movements. It provides a comprehensive analysis of American society at the close of the twentieth century.

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.

 Contents

1. Class Structure and Class Struggle in Capitalist Society

   Yow-Suen Sen and Alvin Y. So

    

2. Increasing Class Polarization in the United States

   Jerry S. Kloby

    

3. Surplus Value and Profits:  The Exploitation of Labor

   Victor Perlo

    

4. The Concentration of Economic Power in the United States

   Howard J. Sherman   

    

5. The Modern Corporation:  Ownership, Control and Recent Trends

   Julia D. Fox

    

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

   Jerry Lembcke  

    

7. The Nature and Forms of Alienation in Capitalist Society

   David Schweitzer

    

8. The Origins and Development of the Capitalist State

   Berch Berberoglu 

    

9. Education and the Struggle Against Inequality

   Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Stephen Samuel Smith 

    

10. Class, Race, and Health Care in the United States

    Vicente Navarro 

     

11. Aging, Health Care, and Public Policy

    Barbara G. Brents

     

12. Urban Social Problems in the United States:  Issues in Urban Political Economy  Robert E. Parker 

     

13. The Class Nature of Poverty in America

    Martha E. Gimenez 

     

14. Racism and Capitalism in the United States

    Victor Perlo

     

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

    Bernard D. Headley 

     

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

    Elaine Enarson 

     

17. Working Class Women and the Women's Movement

    Judy R. Aulette and Walda Katz Fishman 

     

18. Capitalism, Uneven Development and Ecological Crisis

    James O'Connor 

     

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

    Berch Berberoglu 

     

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

    Ted Goertzel

    To read the "Introduction" to this book, click here [pdf file]

Publication date:  1993

ISBN:  0-8403-8468-8 (paper)

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