Product Description: As the single largest preventable cause of premature death, tobacco use kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. A host of new laws has increased taxes on cigarettes and restricted smoking in public places, and U.S. smoking rates have declined...read more

Product Description: Necessities and structures that many take for granted - employment, medical care, and housing - are often difficult for the elderly to obtain. As baby boomers continue to retire, questions surrounding the rights of the elderly become more and more pronounced...read more

Provides an overview of the controversy surrounding steroid and drug use by athletes, including a chronology, information on the legal ramifications of drug use, and a guide for further research.

Despite their role in founding and defining the discipline of sociology, the field's classical theorists typically receive only cursory attention in standard introductory texts.  Written specifically for undergraduate students, the supplemental text, Fred Pampel's Sociological Lives and Ideas brings to life the fundamental ideas of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and George H. Mead by placing them in the context of each theorists' biography.  By exploring the lives and times of these key figures, students will gain a richer understanding of their intellectual legacies, as well as of ways in which their work can be applied to current issues

Provides historical background about racial profiling in the United States and includes a chronology, biographical listings, and a list of relevant organizations and agencies.

Product Description: Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Fred C. Pampel describes how age combines with other components of inequality by comparing the influence of group membership on social inequality before and after the life course transition to old age. He looks at the differences in public policy and how age inequality -- more than the other sources of inequality -- relates closely to government policies and studies other societies in which both age group differences and overall inequality differ from those in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This analysis of the growth of welfare spending examines the relative impact of class and status groups versus demographic composition and political structures. Special attention is given to the role of the aged as representative of the importance of ascription and middle-class groups in welfare growth, and to the effect of welfare spending on income inequality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)