Social issues in America an encyclopedia /

This work covers hotly contested social issues in America today-everything from abortion, academic freedom, and affirmative action to consumer debt, homeland security, illegal immigration, poverty and wealth, reproductive rights, and terrorism. Each entry discusses the historical origins of a partic...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Ciment, James (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (2522 pages) : illustrations.
Subjects:
Social problems -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
Social movements -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
United States -- Social conditions -- Encyclopedias.
United States -- Social policy -- Encyclopedias.
Online Access:EBSCOhost - Click here for access
Contents:
  • Abortion and Reproductive Issues
  • Academic Freedom
  • Adoption
  • Advertising, Children's
  • Affirmative Action
  • Ageism
  • AIDS/HIV
  • Air Pollution
  • Air Travel: Safety, Security, and Service
  • Alcohol and Alcoholism
  • Animal Rights
  • Anti-Muslim Discrimination and Violence
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Arson
  • Arts Funding and Censorship
  • At-Risk Students: Higher Education
  • Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Autism
  • Automobile and Highway Safety
  • Bilingualism
  • Birth Control
  • Campaign Finance Reform
  • Cancer
  • Capital Punishment
  • Census Issues
  • Cheating, Academic
  • Child Abuse and Molestation
  • Child Labor
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • Church-State Separation
  • Civil Liberties
  • Civil Rights
  • Coastal Pollution and Wetlands Protection
  • College Sports
  • Computer Crime and Hacking
  • Consumer Debt and Bankruptcy
  • Corporal Punishment
  • Corporate Crime
  • Corporate Downsizing
  • Crime
  • Criminal Rights
  • Cults and Alternative Religions
  • Defense Spending and Preparedness
  • Deforestation and Logging
  • Disability Rights
  • Divorce and Child Custody
  • Domestic Surveillance
  • Domestic Violence
  • Drought and Aquifer Depletion
  • DRUG ABUSE
  • Drugs, War On
  • Eating Disorders
  • Energy Dependency
  • Environmental Justice
  • Environmentally Induced Illnesses
  • Euthanasia
  • Evolution Education
  • Extinction and Species Loss: Biota Invasion and Habitat Destruction
  • Farm Issues
  • Foods and Drug Safety
  • Foster Care
  • Gambling
  • Gangs
  • Gay and Lesbian Rights
  • Genetic Engineering
  • Gentrification
  • Global Warming
  • Gulf War Syndrome and Other Veterans' Illnesses
  • Gun Violence and Gun Control
  • Hate Crimes
  • Hate Radio and Internet
  • Hate Speech
  • Health Care Reform
  • Heart Disease and Cardiology
  • Homelessness
  • Housing, Affordable
  • Human Experimentation
  • Identity Theft
  • Immigration Policy and Law
  • Immigration, Illegal
  • Indoor Air Pollution
  • Infectious Disease and Epidemics
  • Infrastructure Deterioration
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Journalistic Ethics
  • Judicial Reform
  • Juvenile Justice
  • Legal Services for the Poor
  • Literacy
  • Mandatory Sentencing
  • Marijuana
  • Mass Transit
  • Media Bias
  • Media Consolidation
  • Media Sex and Violence
  • Medical Malpractice Reform
  • Medicare and Medicaid Reform
  • Medicine, Complementary and Alternative
  • Mental Illness
  • Migrant Workers
  • Militia Movement
  • Minimum and Living Wages
  • Money Laundering
  • Native Americans and Government Policy
  • Natural Disasters and Disaster Relief
  • Needle Exchange Programs
  • Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) Issues
  • Nuclear Power and Waste
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Obesity
  • Occupational Safety and Health
  • Organ and Tissue Transplants
  • Organic Foods
  • Organized Crime
  • Plagiarism, Literary and Artistic
  • Police Abuse and Corruption
  • Pornography
  • Poverty and Wealth
  • Prison Reform and Prisoner Rights
  • Privacy
  • Prostitution
  • Public Opinion Polling
  • Racial Profiling
  • Rape
  • Recycling and Conservation
  • Redlining, Loan Discrimination, and Predatory Lending
  • Rioting
  • School Standards and Testing
  • School Violence
  • School Vouchers and Privatization
  • Scientific Research Ethics
  • Secrecy, Government
  • Sex Education
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Single Parenting and Out-of-Wedlock Births
  • Social Security Reform
  • Space Exploration
  • Special Education
  • Stem Cell Research
  • Stress
  • Students' Rights
  • Suicide
  • Superstores vs. Main Street
  • Sweatshops
  • Taxes and Tax Reform
  • Term Limits
  • Terrorism, Domestic
  • Terrorism, Foreign
  • Terrorism, War on
  • Tobacco
  • Tort Reform
  • Torture
  • Toxic Waste
  • Traffic Congestion
  • Unemployment
  • Unions
  • Urban Sprawl
  • Veterans' Care and Benefits
  • Voluntarism and Volunteering
  • Voting Issues
  • Waste Disposal
  • Water Pollution
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • Welfare and Welfare Reform
  • Wilderness Protection
  • Women's Rights
  • Xenophobia and Nativism.

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