This text probes the nature and causes of each major social problem and then explores social control and action with respect to each. Coverage includes: the Clinton Administration's health care reform proposals; drug use; gangs and guns; residential segregation; sexual harrasment and date rape; changing norms of parenthood, including gay and lesbian parents; China's population control policy; and the Bosnian and Middle Eastern conflicts.
- ISBN10 0138168199
- ISBN13 9780138168193
- Publish Date 1 January 1983 (first published May 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 March 1994
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prentice Hall
- Edition 4th Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 608
- Language English