Social Problems in Global PerspectiveUniversity Press of America, 2004 - 380 pages The global high-tech economy has generated a technological and scientific productive miracle. But along with the miracle has come problems. This important book provides a detailed account of some of these problems. |
Contents
Globalization and Social Problems Has the high technology revolution made life better or worse? | vii |
Sociology Social Problems and the New Global Culture | 1 |
Doing Something About Social Problems Facts Values and Political Reality | 15 |
World Religions on a Shrinking Planet The Scientific World View and Reactions to it Fundamentalist Movements Cults and Secular Humanism | 31 |
Marriage and Family Love and Hate? The Decline of the Extended Family And Womens Liberation and Divorce | 59 |
Life Chances and Life Choices Rape Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion | 99 |
Sexualities and Beyond Gays Lesbians and Gender in the Global World AIDS as a Social Problem | 123 |
Societal Time Bombs The Population Explosion and Ageism | 149 |
Class Structures and Poverty in Global Perspective | 197 |
Hunger and Homelessness Around the World | 227 |
Multiculturalism and Diversity in High Tech Societies | 251 |
The Culture of Violence Crime and Success in the USA and Around the World | 277 |
Growing Up Drugged Human Anxieties and Escape from Reality | 311 |
The Politics of Ethnic Warfare and Global Terrorism | 345 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 377 |
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