University Press of America
Pages: 342
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Trim: 7 x 9
978-0-7618-2924-9 • Paperback • September 2004 • $71.99 • (£55.00)
Myles J. Kelleher is Professor of Sociology at Bucks County Community College.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 The Problem of the Sociology of Social Problems: Invitation to Sociological Heresy; Political Ideology in the Sociology of Social Problems
Chapter 3 An Individual Rights Perspective: Social Problems as Rights Violations; Leviathan
Chapter 4 Wealth and Poverty: The Economic Problem; The Distribution of Wealth I: The Outcomes of the Game; The Distribution of Wealth II: When the Game is Rigged; Poverty in America
Chapter 5 Violations of Personal and Property Rights: The Persistent Problem of Crime; Family Violence
Chapter 6 Property Rights in the Earth: Population Growth; Are We Running Out of Resources?; Environmental Concerns
Chapter 7 The Prohibition Quagmire: The American Gun Culture; The War on Drugs; The Nanny State
Chapter 8 Equality of Opportunity: Race and Racism; The Gender Question: Women, Men, and Equality
Chapter 9 When Individual Rights Clash: The Abortion Dilemma
Chapter 10 Notes
Chapter 11 Index
Chapter 12 About the Author
'Social Problems in a Free Society' is packed full of ideas and analyses of modern American society that will leave the casual reader breathless and the assiduous student spellbound. It makes comprehensive casual reading and would make an excellent text for any class in sociology.
— The Conservative Monitor
As a skeptic about a lot of the nostrums of the Left, I only wish it had been available when I taught Social Problems. The documentation is splendid, and the reasoning is vigorous.
— Hendrik Booraem, author of Young Hickory: The Making of Andrew Jackson (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2001) and The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and Hi
Kelleher's curmudgeonly analysis pops so many sociological bubbles, it's a wonder the discipline is still afloat. Deploying his libertarian perspective on an array of social problems - guns, poverty, abortion, drug use, racism and others - Kelleher aims to shake up orthodox thinking on the political left and the right in order to reinvigorate the profession.
— Book News, Inc.
Kelleher's book provides a sound understanding of what it means to have a free society, how it should work, how to identify inherent problems and how to correct those problems. The reader will come away with a truer understanding of what freedom is, or should be, and how to maintain it.
— Monty Rainey, Junto Society
This is a fascinating book that will change the face of sociology and the way it is studied. A must read for anyone interested in sociology or modern democracy.
— Conservative Bookstore.Com, (Pick Of The Month)
This is a fascinating book that will change the face of sociology and the way it is studied. A must read for anyone interested in sociology or modern democracy.
— Conservative Bookstore.Com, (Pick Of The Month)
'Social Problems in a Free Society' is packed full of ideas and analyses of modern American society that will leave the casual reader breathless and the assiduous student spellbound. It makes comprehensive casual reading and would make an excellent text for any class in sociology.
— The Conservative Monitor
As a skeptic about a lot of the nostrums of the Left, I only wish it had been available when I taught Social Problems. The documentation is splendid, and the reasoning is vigorous.
— Hendrik Booraem, author of Young Hickory: The Making of Andrew Jackson (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2001) and The Provincial: Calvin Coolid
Kelleher's curmudgeonly analysis pops so many sociological bubbles, it's a wonder the discipline is still afloat. Deploying his libertarian perspective on an array of social problems - guns, poverty, abortion, drug use, racism and others - Kelleher aims to shake up orthodox thinking on the political left and the right in order to reinvigorate the profession.
— Book News, Inc.
Kelleher's book provides a sound understanding of what it means to have a free society, how it should work, how to identify inherent problems and how to correct those problems. The reader will come away with a truer understanding of what freedom is, or should be, and how to maintain it.
— Monty Rainey, Junto Society