Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction: The Study of Social ProblemsI. MODERN PERSPECTIVES ON INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS1. The New Egalitarianism - Herbert J. Cans2. Liberty and Equality - Harold Laski3. Social Inequality and Social Integration - John H. Goldthorpe4. On the Origin of Inequality Among Men - Ralf Dahrendorf5. The Dynamics of Distributive Systems - Gerhard Lenski6. Policy Analysis and Equality - Martin ReinII. CLASS INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS7. Poverty in the United States - Lee Rainwater8. The American Distribution of Income: A Structural Problem - Lester C. Thurow and Robert Lucas9. The Welfare Crisis - Martin Rein10. The Guaranteed Income - James Tobin11. Education and Inequality 11 a. Inequalities in Higher Education - W. Lee Hansen and Burton A. Weisbrod 11b. The Great Training Robbery - Ivar Berg 11c. Schooling, IQ, and Income - David K. Cohen12. Working-class Family Life-styles and Social Alienation - Lee Rainwater13. Housing and Inequality 13a. The Slum and Its Problems - Lee Rainwater 13b. Improving Federal Housing Subsidies - Bernard J. Frieden14. Health and Inequality 14a. Class and the Chance for Life - Aaron Antonovsky 14b. The Lower Class: Health, Illness, and Medical Institutions - Lee Rainwater15. Who Needs Organized Family Planning Services? - Frederick S. Jaffe, Joy G. Dryfoos, and George Varky16. Taxes and Inequality - Joseph A. PechmanIII. INEQUALITIES OF STATUS17. Black Unrest in the 1960s - Thomas F. Pettigrew18. The 1960s: Decade of Progress for Blacks? - Reynolds Farley and Albert Hermalin19. Attitudes Toward Racial Integration - Andrew M, Greeley and Paul B. Sheatsley20. When the Melting Pot Doesn't Melt - Nathan Glazer21. Sex Inequality 2la. Sex Equality: The Beginnings of an Ideology - Alice S. Rossi 21b. Women's Rights and the Drive for Day Care - Charles L. Schultze, Edward R. Fried, Alice M. Rivlin, and Nancy H. Teeters22. Colonialism: The Case of the Mexican Americans - Joan W. MooreIV. INEQUALITIES OF POWER23. Equality of Voting - Walter Dean Burnham24. Community Action and Neighborhood Control 24a. Radical Decentralization - Michael Lipsky 24b. Lower Class Life-styles and Community Action - Lee Rainwater25. Power and Symbol in Administrative Regulation - Murray Edelman26. The Vietnam War and Presidential Power - Daniel Ellsberg27. American Military Policy and Advanced Weapons - James R. Kurth28. The Politics of Culture in America - Herbert J. CansV. INTERNATIONAL STRATIFICATION AND INEQUALITIES29. The Third World in International Stratification - Irving Louis Horowitz 30. World Population Crisis - Kingsley Davis31. Inequality among Nations and International Redistribution - Ernst MichanekVI. CONFLICTS OF EFFICIENCY, CHOICE, AND EQUALITY32. Reason and National Goals - Thomas Nagel33. Individual Adaptation and Collective Results - Thomas C. Schelling34. Inequality, Affluence, and Environmental Problems - Barry Commoner35. The City as Sandbox - George Sterniieb36. Metropolitan Dispersal and Growth - Commission on Population Growth and the American FutureIndex

About the Author

Lee Rainwater is professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University. He was one of the original founders of Transaction Publishers. He has written books and articles in many professional journals.