This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations a...

High rates of divorce, single-parenthood, and nonmarital cohabitation are forcing Americans to re...

In Poor Kids in a Rich Country, Lee Rainwater and Timothy Smeeding ask what it means to be poor i...

This classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on ...

This classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on ...

This book is about the family lives of some 10,000 children and adults who live in an all-Negr...

This book is about the family lives of some 10,000 children and adults who live in an all-Negr...

Deviance is by definition a social problem. Since deviant behavior violates the normative expe...

Deviance is by definition a social problem. Since deviant behavior violates the normative expe...

This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can ...

This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can ...

This classic book, available in paperback for the first time, is based on a 1962 study of the Ame...