Table Of ContentThe Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems
The introduction of the Affordable Care Act A. Javier Treviño, Professor of Sociology at
in the United States, the increasing use of pre- Wheaton College, is the author and editor of
scription drugs, and the alleged abuse of racial several books, including The Social Thought of
profiling by police are just some of the factors C. Wright Mills (2012), Investigating Social Prob-
contributingtotwenty-first-centurysocialprob- lems, second edition (2018), The Development of
lems. The Cambridge Handbook of Social Prob- Sociological Theory: Readings from the Enlighten-
lems offers a wide-ranging roster of the social ment to the Present (2017), and C. Wright Mills
problems currently pressing for attention and andtheCubanRevolution:AnExerciseintheArt
amelioration. Unlike other works in this area, it of Sociological Imagination (2017). He has served
also gives great consideration to theoretical and as president of the Justice Studies Association
methodological discussions. The Handbook will (2000–2002) and as president of the Society for
benefit both undergraduate and graduate stu- the Study of Social Problems (2010–2011). He
dentseagertounderstandthesociologyofsocial was a visiting research Fellow at the University
problems.Itissuitableforclassesinsocialprob- of Sussex, UK (2006), was a Fulbright scholar
lems, current events, and social theory. Featur- to the Republic of Moldova (2009), and, since
ing the most current research, the Handbook is 2014, has been a visiting professor in Social and
anespeciallyusefulresourceforsociologistsand Political Theory at the University of Innsbruck,
graduatestudentsconductingresearch. Austria.
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Contents
AbouttheContributors page vii 5. SocialProblemsinGlobal
Perspective 77
Introduction xi
YvonneA.Braunand
part i MichaelC.Dreiling
GENERALCONCERNSAND 6. BridgingSocialMovementsand
ORIENTATIONSINTHESTUDY SocialProblems 99
OFSOCIALPROBLEMS
JaimeKucinskas
1. TheChallengesof 7. PublicSociologyandSocial
ConceptualizingSocial Problems 119
Problems 3
JoshuaMeiselandMaryVirnoche
JosephSchneider
8. ServiceSociologyandSocial
2. ResearchMethods 23 Problems 133
AmirMarvasti A.JavierTreviño
3. ParticipatoryActionResearch 9. Astrosociology:SocialProblems
andSocialProblems 39 onEarthandinOuterSpace 149
RandyStoecker JimPass
4. PublicPolicyandSocial 10. ProspectsfortheSociological
Problems:RecentTrendsinthe StudyofSocialProblems 169
FormalControlofIndividual
JoelBestandDonileenR.Loseke
Behavior 57
MarkPeyrotandStacyLeeBurns
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part ii 20. SexualitiesandHomophobia 363
HISTORICALAND CatherineA.Gildae
THEORETICALISSUESINTHE 21. PovertyandIncomeInequality:
STUDYOFSOCIALPROBLEMS
ACross-NationalPerspectiveon
11. SettlementSociology 185 SocialCitizenship 385
PatriciaLengermannand EikoStraderandJoyaMisra
GillianNiebrugge 22. HousingMarketDiscrimination 409
12. ChicagoSchool:CityasaSocial W.DennisKeating
Laboratory 203
23. HungerandFoodInsecurity 423
RogerSalerno
StephenJ.Scanlan
13. Luhmann’sSociologicalSystems
24. Ageism,PastandPresent 441
TheoryandtheStudyofSocial
Problems 221 W.AndrewAchenbaum
WernerSchirmerand 25. Disabilities 459
DimitrisMichailakis
RobynLewisBrown
14. TheConflictApproach 241
part iv
StevenE.Barkan
PROBLEMSOFINSTITUTIONS
15. RadicalInteractionismand
theSymbolismof 26. MediaandtheConstructionof
Methamphetamine 259 SocialProblems 477
MichaelA.Katovich WilliamHoynes
16. SocialConstructionism 279 27. FamilyProblems 497
PeterR.IbarraandMichaelAdorjan DonnaHolland
28. ProblemsinEducation 513
part iii
PeterA.J.Stevens,MariosVryonides,
PROBLEMSOF
andA.GaryDworkin
DISCRIMINATIONAND
INEQUALITY 29. ProblemsoftheWorkplaceand
Workforce 531
17. Racism 303
HéctorL.Delgado
HeatherM.Dalmage
30. Long-TermUnemploymentin
18. Immigration 319 theUnitedStates 551
CeciliaMenjívarand
OferSharone,DavidL.Blustein,and
AndreaGómezCervantes
CarlE.VanHorn
19. GenderInequality 339
Index 567
WilliamJ.Scarboroughand
BarbaraJ.Risman
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About the Contributors
W. Andrew Achenbaum, to combat ageism, Yvonne A. Braun is Associate Professor in the
retired from the University of Houston to the Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies
InstituteforSpiritualityandHealth. and International Studies at the University of
Oregon specializing in gender, intersectionality,
Michael Adorjan has applied social construc- internationaldevelopment,environment,global-
tionismtoexamineyouthcrimedebatesandpol- ization, social movements, and inequality. Her
icyresponses,Stockholmsyndromeasavernacu- recent scholarship has appeared in Gender &
larresource,andpublicsociology.Heiscurrently Society, Social Problems, Global Ethics, Interna-
researchingyouthandcyberrisk. tionalFeministJournalofPolitics,JournalofEnvi-
ronmentalManagement,andCambridgeJournalof
StevenE.BarkanisProfessorofSociologyatthe Regions,Economy,andSociety.
UniversityofMaine.Heisapastpresidentofthe
SocietyfortheStudyofSocialProblemsandalso Robyn Lewis Brown, PhD, is Associate Profes-
oftheTextbookandAcademicAuthorsAssocia- sor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky,
tion. where she also serves as chair of the under-
graduate Health, Society, and Populations pro-
JoelBestisProfessorofSociologyandCriminal gram. Her work emphasizes gender differences
Justice at the University of Delaware. His most in experiences of health, illness, and disability
recentbookisSocialProblems(2017). and frames both gender and disability as funda-
mentalsourcesofsocialandeconomicinequality.
DavidL.BlusteinisProfessorintheDepartment
ofCounseling,Developmental,andEducational Stacy Lee Burns is Professor and past Chair of
PsychologyintheLynchSchoolofEducationat the Department of Sociology at Loyola Mary-
Boston College. His research, writing, practice, mount University in Los Angeles. She recently
advocacy,andteachinghavebeendevotedtocre- servedaschairoftheCrimeandJuvenileDelin-
ating a broad and inclusive approach to under- quency Division of the Society for the Study
standingtheroleofworkinpeople’slives,opti- of Social Problems and is author of Making Set-
mally encompassing everyone who works and tlement Work: An Examination of the Work of
whowantstowork. JudicialMediators(2000),editorofEthnographies
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viii aboutthecontributors
of Law and Social Control (2008), and coeditor WilliamHoynesisProfessorofSociologyatVas-
(withMarkPeyrot)ofNewApproachestoSocial sar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where
ProblemsTreatment(2010). hehasservedasdirectorofboththeMediaStud-
ies and American Studies programs. He is the
Andrea Gómez Cervantes is a doctoral candi- author of Public Television for Sale (1994) and
dateintheDepartmentofSociologyattheUni-
coauthor, with David Croteau, of The Business
versity of Kansas with specializations in global- ofMedia(2005)andMedia/Society(2015).
ization and sociology of families. Her research
focusesonimmigrantfamilies,immigrationpol- Peter R. Ibarra is Associate Professor in the
icy,race/ethnicity,andsocialinequality. Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice
at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Most
Heather M. Dalmage is Professor of Sociology
recently, he has published work in Crime, Law,
andDirectoroftheMansfieldInstituteforSocial
and Social Change; Journal of Technology in
Justice at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She
Human Services; and International Journal of
hasauthoredandeditedfourbooksandisafor-
OffenderTherapyandComparativeCriminology.
mer Fulbright scholar at the University of Kwa
ZuluNatal,SouthAfrica. Michael A. Katovich is Professor of Sociology
at Texas Christian University. His publications
Héctor L. Delgado, the author of New Immi- includeavarietyofapproaches,includingethno-
grants, Old Unions: Organizing Undocumented graphic participant observation, experimental
Workers in Los Angeles (1994), is a Professor of laboratorystudies,andcinematicanalyses.
SociologyandformerchairoftheDepartmentof
SociologyandAnthropologyattheUniversityof W. Dennis Keating is Emeritus Professor of
LaVerneandtheExecutiveOfficeroftheSoci- Urban Studies and Planning, Department of
etyfortheStudyofSocialProblems. Urban Studies,College ofUrban Affairs,Cleve-
land State University. He has published widely
Michael C. Dreiling is Professor of Sociology onhousing,cities,andneighborhoods(including
attheUniversityofOregonspecializinginpolit- his 2016 history of Cleveland’s historic Tremont
ical and environmental sociology. He is author neighborhood) and is a past president of the
oftwobooks(mostrecentlyAgentsofNeoliberal HousingandBuiltEnvironmentResearchCom-
Globalization [2016]) and numerous articles and mitteeoftheInternationalSociologicalAssocia-
is presently working on a comparative study of tion.
thenetworkpowerofenergyindustries.
JaimeKucinskas is Assistant Professor of Sociol-
A. Gary Dworkin is Professor of Sociology and ogy at Hamilton College. Her research interests
former chair of the Department of Sociology, spansocialmovementsandthesociologyofreli-
University of Houston, and currently serves as gion,inequality,andculturalchange.
president of Research Committee 04 (Sociol-
Patricia Lengermann is Research Professor of
ogy of Education) of the International Socio-
SociologyattheGeorgeWashingtonUniversity.
logical Association. His teaching, research, and
She has been writing with Gillian Niebrugge
publications include several books and articles
since 1985. Their primary scholarly work is in
on teacher burnout, student dropout behavior,
the history of sociology and feminist sociologi-
minority–majority relations, gender roles, and
caltheory–mostnotably,TheWomenFounders:
schoolaccountabilityandhigh-stakestesting.
SociologyandSocialTheory1830–1930(2007),the
CatherineA.GildaeisSeniorLecturerinSoci- chapter on the complex history of the rela-
ology at Northeastern University. She holds a tionship of sociology and social work in the
PhD in Law, Policy, and Society, and her work American Sociological Association centennial
emphasizes how law and public policy interact history Sociology in America (2007), and several
withandshapefamilylife,especiallyforLGBTQ article-lengthstudiesofthehistoryofsettlement
people. sociology. Lengermann and Niebrugge are the
founders of the ASA Section on the History of
DonnaHolland, PhD, is Associate Professor of
Sociology.
Sociology and the Director of the Center for
Social Research at Indiana University–Purdue DonileenR.LosekeisProfessorofSociologyat
University Fort Wayne. Her research inter- the University of South Florida and the 2016–
ests include resilience, family, foster care, and 2017 president of the Society for the Study of
disaster. Social Problems. Her current interests focus on
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relationships between narrative and the politics theCEO,aboardmember,andanexecutiveedi-
ofmeaningina“postfact”world. toroftheJournalofAstrosociologyattheAstroso-
ciology Research Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprofit
Amir Marvasti’s research focuses on identity
organizationestablishedin2008.
work in everyday encounters and institutional
settings.Healsohasanactivepublicationrecord Mark Peyrot is Professor and former chair of
onthepedagogyofqualitativeresearch. Sociology at Loyola University Maryland. He
published (with Stacy Burns) the edited collec-
Joshua Meisel is Associate Professor of Soci-
tion New Approaches to Social Problems Treat-
ology at Humboldt State University and past
ment, vol. 17 (2010) in the Research in Social
coordinator of the MA in Public Sociology.
Problems and Public Policy series which is
He is codirector of the Humboldt Institute
relatedtothetopicoftheirchapter,andtheyare
for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research (www
currentlycollaboratingonarelatedmonograph.
.humboldt.edu/hiimr) and author of a forth-
comingCaliforniaGeographerarticle,“Hiddenin Barbara J. Risman is Professor of Sociology at
PlainSight:CannabisCultivationintheEmerald the University of Illinois at Chicago and presi-
Triangle.” dent of the Board of Directors of the Council
on Contemporary Families. Professor Risman’s
Cecilia Menjívar is Foundation Distinguished
bookWheretheMillennialsWillTakeUs:ANew
ProfessorintheDepartmentofSociologyatthe
Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure
University of Kansas. Her work focuses on the
(2018) offers a revision of her gender structure
manifestations of state power; on the form of
theory and illustrates it with qualitative inter-
enforcement practices and the creation of legal
views with a gender-diverse sample of young
statuses;andontheeverydaylivesofimmigrants,
adults.
primarilyfromCentralAmerica.
RogerSalernoisProfessorofSociologyatPace
DimitrisMichailakis,PhD,isProfessorofSoci-
University in New York City, where he teaches
ology and Social Welfare in the Department of
coursesinurbansociology,gender,andsocialthe-
Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping Univer-
ory.HismostrecentbookisBoyhoodandDelin-
sity,Sweden.HeisresearchdirectorforPlatform
quencyin1920sChicago(2017).
forTheory-DrivenResearchinSocialWork.
Stephen J. Scanlan is Associate Professor of
Joya Misra is Professor of Sociology and Pub-
Sociology at Ohio University. His research
lic Policy at the University of Massachusetts,
areas include environmental sociology, inter-
Amherst. She studies labor, inequality, and pol-
national development, social movements, and
icy,mostlyfromacross-nationalperspective.
social inequality, with specific interests in envi-
Gillian Niebrugge is Professorial Lecturer at ronmental justice, hunger and food justice, gen-
theGeorgeWashingtonUniversity.Shehasbeen deranddevelopment,andpoverty.
writing with Patricia Lengermann since 1985.
William J. Scarborough is a PhD student in
Their primary scholarly work is in the history
SociologyattheUniversityofIllinoisatChicago.
of sociology and feminist sociological theory –
His research focuses on the economic and cul-
mostnotably,TheWomenFounders:Sociologyand
turalforcesinvolvedinthereproductionofgen-
Social Theory 1830–1930 (2007), their chapter on
derinequality.
the relationship of sociology and social work
in the Sociology in America (2007), and several WernerSchirmer,PhD,isSeniorResearcherat
article-lengthstudiesofthehistoryofsettlement the Department of Social and Welfare Studies
sociology. Niebrugge and Lengermann are the at the University of Linköping, Sweden. He has
founders of the ASA Section on the History of published several articles applying Luhmann’s
Sociology. systemstheorytoavarietyofsocialissues.
JimPassfoundedthemultidisciplinaryacademic Joseph Schneider is the Ellis and Nelle Levitt
field of astrosociology in 2004 to fill the void Professor of Sociology at Drake University. He
in which the social sciences and humanities has written on the medicalization of deviance
failed to focus enough on issues related to the and the experience of illness (both with Peter
impact of outer space on both terrestrial soci- Conrad), social problems theory, Donna Har-
eties and beyond Earth’s atmosphere (i.e., the away,andtheplaceofobjectsandmaterialityin
human dimension of outer space). He serves as humanexperience.
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Ofer Sharone is Professor of Sociology at the race/gender/class, welfare states, incarceration,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the andimmigration.
author of the book Flawed System/Flawed Self:
CarlE.VanHorn,PhD,isthefoundingdirector
Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences
of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Develop-
(2013).Hisresearchandteachingfocusoncareer
mentandDistinguishedProfessorofPublicPol-
transitions, job searching, unemployment, and
icy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Plan-
qualitativecross-nationalcomparisons.
ningandPublicPolicyatRutgersUniversity.He
Peter A. J. Stevens is Associate Professor at is a visiting nonresident scholar with the Fed-
eral Reserve Bank and a fellow of the National
Ghent University, Department of Sociology,
AcademyofPublicAdministration.
whereheteachesQualitativeResearchMethods.
His research focuses on sociology of education MaryVirnocheisProfessorandchairofSociol-
andraceandethnicrelations. ogyatHumboldtStateUniversity.Sheidentifies
asafeministpublicsociologistworkingondiver-
RandyStoecker’spracticefocusesonusingtech-
sityandinclusivestudentsuccessinhigheredu-
nical assistance and training, and participatory
cationandSTEMfields.
action research, to build the capacity of grass-
rootsgroups.Healsowritesandspeaksonthese MariosVryonidesisaprofessorattheEuropean
topics. University Cyprus, Department of Education,
where he teaches Research Methods in Educa-
Eiko Strader is a doctoral candidate in Sociol- tion and Sociology of Education. His research
ogyattheUniversityofMassachusetts,Amherst. focuses on educational inequalities, social and
Her research interests focus on inequality, culturalcapital,andnewformsofeducation.
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