Crisis in american institutions (14th ed )

Crisis in American Institutions provides students with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought.

This edition contains seventeen new articles, many addressing the escalating crises of American society in recent years,including the worst economic crisis in decades, the rapid rise in health care costs, the polarizing debate on immigration, and the continuing growth of economic inequality. Others update our coverage of longstanding issues, including the persistence of poverty, the continued growth of mass incarceration, and the politics of global warming.

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

*Denotes new reading

Preface

Introduction: Approaches to Social Problems

Systemic Problems

Part I Corporate Power

Mark Zepezauer: Take the Rich Off Welfare

Robert S. McIntyre: Tax Cheats and Their Enablers

Neil Postman and Steve Powers: The Commercial

*John Luoma: Water for Profit

Part II Economic Crisis

Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Tamara Draut and Javier Silva: Generation Broke

Dale Russakoff: Retirement's Unraveling Safety Net

*Robert Kuttner: The Squandering of America

Part III Inequality

*Dean Baker: Increasing Inequality in the United States

*Center for American Progress: From Poverty to Prosperity

Elliot Liebow: Day by Day: the Lives of Homeless Women

David Wessel: As Rich-Poor Gap Widens in the U.S., Class Mobility Stalls

Part IV Racism

Michael K. Brown et al: The Roots of White Advantage

Sentencing Project: Schools and Prisons

Daniel Golden: At Many Colleges, the Rich Kids Get Affirmative Action

*Aviva Chomsky: They Take Our Jobs

Part V Sexism

The Economist: The Conundrum of the Glass Ceiling

*American Association of University Women: Drawing the Line: Sexual Harassment on Campus

Peggy Orenstein: Learning Silence

Institutions in Crisis

Part VI The Family

*Arlene Skolnick: Beyond the M' Word: the Tangled Web of Politics and Marriage

*Sharon Lerner: The Kids Aren't All Right

Brittany Shahmehri: More Than Welcome: Families Come First in Sweden

James Gustave Speth: A World of Wounds

Steve Lerner Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in...