Social Policy and Public Policy: Inequality and Justice

ISBN-13: 9781138532878 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 484 str.

Yung-Teh Chow; Lee Rainwater

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This classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on a broad range of social issues in American society, specifically the complex social problems of the 1960s

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Preface
Introduction: The Study of Social Problems

I. MODERN PERSPECTIVES ON INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
1. The New Egalitarianism - Herbert J. Cans
2. Liberty and Equality - Harold Laski
3. Social Inequality and Social Integration - John H. Goldthorpe
4. On the Origin of Inequality Among Men - Ralf Dahrendorf
5. The Dynamics of Distributive Systems - Gerhard Lenski
6. Policy Analysis and Equality - Martin Rein

II. CLASS INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
7. Poverty in the United States - Lee Rainwater
8. The American Distribution of Income: A Structural Problem - Lester C. Thurow and Robert Lucas
9. The Welfare Crisis - Martin Rein
10. The Guaranteed Income - James Tobin
11. Education and Inequality
11 a. Inequalities in Higher Education - W. Lee Hansen and Burton A. Weisbrod
11b. The Great Training Robbery - Ivar Berg
11c. Schooling, IQ, and Income - David K. Cohen
12. Working-class Family Life-styles and Social Alienation - Lee Rainwater
13. Housing and Inequality
13a. The Slum and Its Problems - Lee Rainwater
13b. Improving Federal Housing Subsidies - Bernard J. Frieden
14. Health and Inequality
14a. Class and the Chance for Life - Aaron Antonovsky
14b. The Lower Class: Health, Illness, and Medical Institutions - Lee Rainwater
15. Who Needs Organized Family Planning Services? - Frederick S. Jaffe, Joy G. Dryfoos, and George Varky
16. Taxes and Inequality - Joseph A. Pechman

III. INEQUALITIES OF STATUS
17. Black Unrest in the 1960s - Thomas F. Pettigrew
18. The 1960s: Decade of Progress for Blacks? - Reynolds Farley and Albert Hermalin
19. Attitudes Toward Racial Integration - Andrew M, Greeley and Paul B. Sheatsley
20. When the Melting Pot Doesn't Melt - Nathan Glazer
21. Sex Inequality
2la. Sex Equality: The Beginnings of an Ideology - Alice S. Rossi
21b. Women's Rights and the Drive for Day Care - Charles L. Schultze, Edward R. Fried, Alice M. Rivlin, and Nancy H. Teeters
22. Colonialism: The Case of the Mexican Americans - Joan W. Moore

IV. INEQUALITIES OF POWER
23. Equality of Voting - Walter Dean Burnham
24. Community Action and Neighborhood Control
24a. Radical Decentralization - Michael Lipsky
24b. Lower Class Life-styles and Community Action - Lee Rainwater
25. Power and Symbol in Administrative Regulation - Murray Edelman
26. The Vietnam War and Presidential Power - Daniel Ellsberg
27. American Military Policy and Advanced Weapons - James R. Kurth
28. The Politics of Culture in America - Herbert J. Cans

V. INTERNATIONAL STRATIFICATION AND INEQUALITIES
29. The Third World in International Stratification - Irving Louis Horowitz
30. World Population Crisis - Kingsley Davis
31. Inequality among Nations and International Redistribution - Ernst Michanek

VI. CONFLICTS OF EFFICIENCY, CHOICE, AND EQUALITY
32. Reason and National Goals - Thomas Nagel
33. Individual Adaptation and Collective Results - Thomas C. Schelling
34. Inequality, Affluence, and Environmental Problems - Barry Commoner
35. The City as Sandbox - George Sterniieb
36. Metropolitan Dispersal and Growth - Commission on Population Growth and the American Future

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