Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons From Other Societies

This reader examines how other advanced industrial societies have dealt with social problems with relative success and looks how these strategies may be applicable to the United States. For each social problem considered, several articles have been selected. These articles either describe the situation in a single country or in multiple countries, or expressly contrast the situation of a country or countries with the United States.

D. Stanley Eitzen (Ph. D., University of Kansas) is professor emeritus of sociology at Colorado State University, where he taught for twenty-one years, the last as John N. Stern Distinguished Professor. Prior to that he taught at the University of Kansas. He is the former editor of The Social Science Journal. His scholarship has focused on social inequality, homelessness, poverty, power, family, criminology, and the sociology of sport. He has authored or co-authored twenty-four books on these topics. His books that fit closely with Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from Other Societies 5e are Social Problems 11e, Solutions to Social Problems From the Bottom Up: Successful Social Movements, Solutions to Social Problems from the Top Down: The Role of Government, Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from State and Local Governments, and Globalization: The Transformation of Social Worlds.