Description: I. The Sociological Imagination: A Paradigm for Studying Social Problems. 1. Social Problems in the Postmodern Era. 2. Social Structure and Contradiction: The Mass Society and the American Dream. 3. The Mass Media: Alienation, and Micro Social Problems. 4. Social Problems: The Failure of Dominant Ideology. II. Institutional Problems of Social Structure Contradiction. 5. The Problems of the American Political Economy. 6. The Politics of Postmodern Crises: The Scandalization of America. 7. Postmodern Environmental Crises: Alienation, Mass Consumption, and the Overpopulation Debate. 8. The American Crime Factory: The Crime-Drug Nexus. 9. The Medical Industrial Complex: Problems of Health and Mental Health. III. The Sociology of Oppression: Problems of Inequality and Alienation. 10. Poverty and the Underclass: Global and National Inequality. 11. The Sociology of Oppression: Problems of Race and Ethnicity. 12. The Sociology of Oppression: Gender and Sexual Orientation. 13. The Sociology of Oppression: The Paradox of Ageism. 14. The Nature of Postmodern Alienation: The Social Problems of Everyday Life.

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