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Focus on Social Problems: A Contemporary Reader, Third Edition, exposes students to current issues in the field. The selections in this reader help students understand how social problems are defined and constructed, increase their empirical knowledge about the causes and consequences of social problems, and develop empathy. Working from a critical social constructionist foundation, the readings address a wide variety of social problems. Editors Mindy Stombler and Amanda M. Jungels include a combination of research-based articles and popular media pieces. Each chapter opens with an interview of a social-change activist doing work related to the chapter's featured social problem, giving students an opportunity to envision themselves as agents of social change.

Table of Contents:
Contents Preface Contributor List Chapter 1: What is Sociology? Chapter 2: Wealth and Income Inequality Activist Interview: Denise Diaz 2.1 Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters? Michael I. Norton 2.2 Income Inequality Threatens the American Dream Renee M. Shelby and Shelby Frost 2.3 The Ever-Growing Gap: Without Change, Afterican-American and Latino Families Won't Match White Wealth for Centuries Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie, and Emanuel Nieves BOX 2.1: The Second Racial Wealth Gap Mel Jones 2.4 Gender in the One Percent Jill E. Yavorsky, Lisa A. Keister, and Yue Qian Chapter 3: Poverty Activist Interview: Deborah Gilbert White 3.1 Confronting Poverty: Facts and Myths Mark R. Rank, Lawrence Eppard, and Heather Bullock BOX 3.1: Challenging Stereotypes About Who Receives Welfare Amanda M. Jungels 3.2 Being Poor is Too Expensive Eric Ravenscraft 3.3 Revealing the Lives of People Who Live on $2 a Day Dale Keiger 3.4 Making Bank on Tribal Gaming? Poverty and the Myth of Native American Prosperity Ashley Rockwell 3.5 How Houston Guided 25,000 People Into Homes Michael Kimmelman BOX 3.2: Vancouver Gave Homeless People $7,500 and It Changed Their Lives Lauren Kaljur 3.6 Investing in Ending Poverty Matthew Desmond Chapter 4: Racial and Ethnic Inequality Activist Interview: Julie Garreau 4.1 Sociologists on the Colorblind Question Elaine McArdle BOX 4.1: AI Can Be Racist. Let's Make Sure it Works for Everyone Jeff Raikes 4.2 Racial Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Disparities Solomon Greene, Margery Austin Turner, and Ruth Gourevitch BOX 4.2: Appraised: The Persistent Evaluation of White Neighborhoods as More Valuable than Communities of Color Junia Howell and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn 4.3 The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander BOX 4.3: Chicago Police Pull Over Black Drivers Seven Times More Often Than White Drivers... Pascal Sabino 4.4 Evidence from Field Experiments in Hiring Shows Substantial Additional Racial Discrimination after the Callback Lincoln Quillian, John J. Lee and Mariana Oliver 4.5 When "Model Minorities" Become "Yellow Peril": Othering and the Racialization of Asian Americans in the COVID-19 Pandemic Yao Li and Harvey L. Nicholson, Jr. BOX 4.4: Behind the Model Minority Myth SunAh M. Laybourn Chapter 5: Social Problems Related to Gender and Sexuality Activist Interview: Cameron Samuels 5.1 The Agency Myth: Persistence in Individual Explanations for Gender Inequality Emily K. Carian and Amy L. Johnson BOX 5.1: Sexism among American Adults Margaret Edwards and Brian Schaffner 5.2 A Doll for Everyone': Meet Mattel's Gender-Neutral Doll Eliana Dockterman 5.3 The Miseducation of the American Boy Peggy Orenstein 5.4 Homophobic Bullying as Gender Policing... Joel Mittleman BOX 5.2: America's War on Black Trans Women Annamarie Forestiere 5.5 Inequitable Access, Information & Support: A Social Analysis of America's Sex Education Programs Ann Jenkin LaVanway BOX 5.3: If You Ignore Porn, You Aren't Teaching Sex Ed Peggy Orenstein 5.6 The Complexities of Sexual Consent Among College StudentsEL Charlene L. Muehlenhard, Terry P. Humphreys, Kristen N. Jozkowski & Zoë D. Peterson 5.7 Sex Trafficking, Social Inequality, and Our Evolving Legal Consciousness Renee M. Shelby and Kara Tsukerman Chapter 6: Social Problems Related to Politics and the Political Systems Activist Interview: Rachel Clay 6.1 The Cost of Admission: Political Elites and the National Discourse Chris M. Vidmar BOX 6.1: A Bitter Pill: How Big Pharma Lobbies to Keep Prescription Drug Prices High Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington 6.2 Democracy for Whom? How Criminal Punishment Marginalizes the Political Voices of Black and Brown Americans Brianna Remster and Rory Kramer 6.3 Preparing to Fight AI-Backed Voter Suppression Mekela Panditharatne BOX 6.2: Gerrymandering Explained Julia Kirschenbaum and Michael Li 6.4 Understanding Democratic Decline in the United States Vanessa Williamson BOX 6.3: What Happens When Democracies Become Perniciously Polarized? Jennifer McCoy and Benjamin Press Chapter 7: Social Problems Related to Media Activist Interview: Josh Golin 7.1 A Modern Empire: The Concentration of Media Desmond Goss and Jenna-Ashley Lee 7.2 Activist Voices Missing from Corporate Coverage of Uprisings Loretta Graceffo BOX 7.1: When Does Murder Make The News? It Depends On The Victim's Race Beth Schwartzapfel 7.3 How the American Media Landscape is Polarizing the Country Flavia Roscini BOX 7.2: How Shows Like Will & Grace and Black-ish Can Change Your Brain Maanvi Singh 7.4 Representation of Women of Color on the Covers of the Top Three Fashion Magazines: a Content Analysis Natalie A. Mitchell, Tony Stovall, David Avalos Chapter 8: Social Problems Related to Education System Activist Interview: Jorge Fanjul 8.1 Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education Claire Cain Miller BOX 8.1: Post-COVID Learning Losses: Children Face Potentially Permanent Setbacks Ryan Doan-Nguyen 8.2 Reconsidering Police in Schools Marc Schindler and Ryan King BOX 8.2: Half of the 250 Kids Expelled from Preschool Each Day are Black Boys Sara Novak 8.3 Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Determinants and Consequences of Admission to Highly Selective Colleges Raj Chetty, David J. Deming, and John N. Friedman BOX 8.3: Degrees of Blackness: Racial Screening in University Admissions Charmian Lam 8.4 "There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys" Susan Dominus 8.5 Does Investing in Knowledge Still Pay the Best Interest? Bailey A. Brown Chapter 9: Social Problems Related to Families Activist Interview: Amy Ard 9.1 How is the Division of Household Labor Related to Stalled Gender Equality? Marin Christensen 9.2 Does it Pay to Have Kids? Not for Working Moms Kirstin Ralston-Coley 9.3 Diaper Despair and Deflecting Inequalities Jennifer Randles and Jennifer Sherman 9.4 The Long Reach of Criminalization: Low-Income Black Mothers Parenting Adolescents in the Mass Incarceration Era Sinikka Elliott and Megan Reid 9.5 Sociology of Gaslighting Paige L. Sweet BOX 9.1: Perceiving Domestic Violence as a Personal or Public Problem Audrey Lutmer Chapter 10: Social Problems Related to Health and the Healthcare System Activist Interview: Matthew McCurdy 10.1 Inequality before Birth Contributes to Health Inequality in Adults Janet Currie 10.2 Dying Early: America's Life Expectancy Crisis Joel Achenbach, Dan Keating, Laurie McGinley, Akilah Johnson and Jahi Chikwendiu BOX 10.1: How Does the U.S. Healthcare System Compare to Other Countries? The Peter G. Peterson Foundation 10.3 The Art of Medicine: Reckoning with Histories of Medical Racism and Violence in the United States Ayah Nuriddin, Graham Mooney, Alexandre I. R. White BOX 10.2: How Medical Education Is Missing the Bull's-eye LaShyra Nolen 10.4 Suicide: Risk, Guns, and Whiteness Jonathan M. Metzl BOX 10.3: From a Society of Survivors to a Survivor Society: Examining Gun Trauma in the U.S. Jennifer Carlson 10.5 Why America's Black Mothers and Babies are in a Life-or-Death Crisis Linda Villarosa 10.6 How We Do Harm Otis Webb Brawley and Paul Goldberg Chapter 11: Social Problems Related to Crime and the Criminal Justice System Activist Interview: Ebony Underwood 11.1 The Smoking Gun: American Masculinity, Gun Culture, and the Problem of Mass Shootings Tristan Bridges, Tara Leigh Tober, and Sara Tyberg BOX 11.1: The Impact of School Safety Drills for Active Shootings Everytown Research & Policy 11.2 Crimes of the Powerful: Crafting Criminality Angie Luvara and Miriam Konrad 11.3 For-Profit Justice: How the Private Prison Industry and the Criminal Justice System Benefit from Mass Incarceration Amanda M. Jungels BOX 11.2 Fees for Freedom: Class Exploitation in the Criminal Justice System Amanda M. Jungels 11.4 Criminalized or Medicalized? Examining the Role of Race in Responses to Drug Use Sadé L. Lindsay and Mike Vuolo 11.5 The Runaround: Punishment, Welfare, and Poverty Survival after Prison John M. Halushka 11.6 Too Much Policing: Why Calls are Made to Defund the Police Jennifer E. Cobbina-Dungy and Delores Jones-Brown BOX 11.3:

About the Author :
Mindy Stombler, Ph.D., is a principal senior lecturer of sociology at Georgia State University. Amanda M. Jungels, Ph.D., is Director of Pedagogy in the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Chicago.

Review :
"Focus on Social Problems is top-notch, and offers timely and up-to-date readings on a wide variety of topics. It could be paired with just about any Social Problems course." Stephen Merino, Colorado Mesa University "This reader offers engaging articles written by sociologists, advocates, and practitioners on key topics in social problems which offers students insights into the causes, consequences, and solutions to inequality in the U.S. It helps students connect with social problems and see how they impact U.S. society, and individuals' lives." Erik Kojola, Texas Christian University


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  • ISBN-13: 9780197753132
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0197753132
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 800
  • Sub Title: A Contemporary Reader


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