Social Institutions and Social Change Series
The Politics of Medicare
2nd Edition
Edited
By Theodore Marmor
March 31, 2000
On July 30, 1965, President Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri to sign the Medicare bill. The new statute included two related insurance programs to finance substantial portions of the hospital and physician expenses incurred by Americans over the age of sixty-five. Public attempts to improve ...
Nowhere to Grow: Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families
1st Edition
By Les B. Whitbeck
October 31, 1999
Les B. Whitbeck and Dan R. Hoyt begin their report on street children in the Midwest with the statement, "If you live in or have visited even a medium-sized city recently, you have seen runaway and homeless young people. They congregate in certain downtown areas and hang out in malls during ...
Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary Kleck
December 31, 1997
This new paperback comprehensively reviews the research evidence on the links between guns, violence, and gun control, and reports results of the author's own research as well. In Targeting Guns, Kleck follows the line of argument and careful statistical inference of his earlier prizewinning volume...
Human Capital or Cultural Capital?: Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District
1st Edition
By George Farkas
December 31, 1996
This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes. It focuses on the process and consequences of unequal cognitive skill attainment for ethnic and poverty groups within our nation's cities. It draws, theoretically, on the notion ...
Families in Troubled Times: Adapting to Change in Rural America
1st Edition
By Rand Conger
December 31, 1994
This book documents the experiences of rural Iowa families, who lived through the "farm crisis" years of the 1980s, in a fashion that might help families of the future cope more successfully with economic reversals. The documentation could be used to fashion more effective social policies....
The Changing Contract across Generations
1st Edition
Edited
By Vern L. Bengtson, W. Andrew Achenbaum
December 31, 1993
Generational conflict has attracted considerable attention in the media and within academic circles during the past decade. At the center of this collection of papers analyzing various facets of that conflict lie complex issues of generational equity - issues that will remain important for the ...
Comparable Worth: Social Institutions and Social Change
1st Edition
By Paula England
December 31, 1992
This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes....
Paying for Medicare: The Politics of Reform
1st Edition
By David G. Smith
December 31, 1992
** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstanding contribution to risk management and insurance literature.The Prospective Payment System and the Medicare Fee Schedule, two of the most effectively sustained and successful efforts at...
Abused and Battered: Social and Legal Responses to Family Violence
1st Edition
Edited
By Dean Knudsen
December 31, 1991
That family violence injures and kills its victims both physically and psychologically was established over two decades ago by early researchers in this field. Abused and Battered heralds the second generation of domestic abuse research: it examines the implications of the legal and social ...
Adolescent Stress: Causes and Consequences
1st Edition
By Mary Colten
December 31, 1991
Adolescent Stress concentrates on a range of major problems—those of a normal developmental nature as well as those of poor adaptation—identified in adolescents....
The Myth of the Madding Crowd
1st Edition
Edited
By Clark McPhail
December 31, 1991
Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood forms of human social behavior. This volume is a major contribution to the field of collective behavior, with implications for social movement analysis.McPhail's critical assessment of the major theories of crowd behavior establishes ...
The Satanism Scare
1st Edition
By Joel Best
December 31, 1991
Although there is growing concern over Satanism as a threat to American life, the topic has received surprisingly little serious attention. Recognizing this, the editors of this volume have selected papers from a wide variety of disciplines, broadly covering contemporary aspects of Satanism from ...