* = new to this edition
# = updated for this edition
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Wealth and Income Inequality
Activist Interview: Sam Nelson
* 1. Unequality: Who Gets What and Why it Matters, Michael I. Norton
# 2. Income Inequality Threatens the American Dream, Renee M. Shelby
BOX: The "Middle Class" Myth: Here's Why Wages Are Really So Low Today, Edward McClelland
* 3. The Ever-Growing Gap: Without Change, African-American and Latino Families Won't Match White Wealth for Centuries, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie, and Emanuel Nieves
* BOX: The Second Racial Wealth Gap, Mel Jones
4. Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%, Joseph E. Stiglitz
* 5. The Cost of Admission: Political Elites and the National Discourse, Chris M. Vidmar
Chapter 3: Poverty
* Activist Interview: Destiny Vasquez
6. Rethinking American Poverty, Mark R. Rank
* BOX: Perceived Racial Threat and Welfare Backlash in the United States, Amanda M. Jungels and Jordan Forrest Miller
* 7. $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer
BOX: The Americans Deepest in Poverty, Kristen Bialik
* 8. Making Bank on Tribal Gaming? Poverty and the Myth of Native American Prosperity, Ashley Rockwell
* 9. Being Poor is Too Expensive, Eric Ravenscraft
BOX: "I Wish I Could Eat That Well": Misconceptions and Resentment about Food Stamps, Arthur Delaney
* 10. The Eviction Economy, Matthew Desmond
* 11. A Hand Up for Lower-Income Families, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Laura Tach, Kathryn J. Edin, and Jennifer Sykes
Chapter 4: Racial and Ethnic Inequality
* Activist Interview: Sawsan Selim
12. Sociologists on the Colorblind Question, Elaine McArdle
* BOX: Racialized Space in Rentals and Rideshares, Dresden Lackey
* 13. Racial Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Disparities, Solomon Greene, Margery Austin Turner, and Ruth Gourevitch
14. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
* BOX: When Heroin Hits the White Suburbs, Andrew Cohen
* 15. The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black, Sharon LaFraniere and Andrew W. Lehren
* BOX: "Hands on the Wheel": Disparities in Respect during Traffic Stops, Moey Rojas
*16. The Racialization of Islam in the United States: Islamophobia, Hate Crimes, and "Flying while Brown", Craig Considine
* BOX: Hate Crimes, Explained, Southern Poverty Law Center
# 17. Tomahawk Chops and "Red" Skin: Cultural Appropriation of Sport Symbols, Elizabeth S. Cavalier
* 18. White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
# BOX: White Americans' Racial Attitudes and their Effect on Antidiscrimination Policies, Amanda Atwell and Amanda M. Jungels
Chapter 5: Gender Inequality
Activist Interview: Emily May
19. The Problem When Sexism Just Sounds So Darn Friendly, Melanie Tannenbaum
* BOX: The Fault in Our Scores: Gender and Racial Bias in Student Evaluations, Kiersten Kummerow
* 20. "You Just Accepted It": Why Older Women Kept Silent about Sexual Harassment--and Younger Ones are Speaking Out, Anna North
* 21. Imagining a Better Boyhood, Sarah Rich
BOX: Selling Feminism, Consuming Femininity, Amanda M. Gengler
22. Transgender Discrimination in the Workplace, Elis Herman and Elroi J. Windsor
Chapter 6: Social Problems Related to Sexuality
Activist Interview: Heather Corinna
23. Sexuality Education in the United States: Shared Cultural Ideas across a Political Divide, Jessica Fields
* BOX: America's Sex Education: How We are Failing Our Students, University of Southern California, Department of Nursing
24. "Children" Having Children, Stefanie Mollborn
BOX: Reducing Unintended Pregnancy: The Role of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives, Stacy Gorman Harmon
* 25. What Teenagers are Learning from Online Porn, Maggie Jones
26. Normalizing Sexual Violence: Young Women Account for Harassment and Abuse, Heather R. Hlavka
* 27. Sex Trafficking, Social Inequality, and Our Evolving Legal Consciousness, Renee M. Shelby
Chapter 7: Social Problems Related to Media
# Activist Interview: Josh Golin
# 28. A Modern Empire: The Concentration of Media, Desmond Goss
* BOX: How Shows Like "Will & Grace" and "Black-ish" Can Change Your Brain, Maanvi Singh
29. Constructing Crime, Gary W. Potter and Victor E. Kappeler
* 30. The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News, Robinson Meyer
* BOX: A Savvy News Consumer's Guide: How Not to Get Duped, Alicia Shepard
* 31. The Algorithmic Rise of the "Alt-Right", Jessie Daniels
* BOX: How the Internet Has Changed Bullying, Maria Konnikova
* 32. Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, Nancy Wang Yuen
Chapter 8: Social Problems Related to Education
# Activist Interview: Jesse Hagopian
33. Inequality and School Resources: What It Will Take to Close the Opportunity Gap, Linda Darling-Hammond
34. How Schools Really Matter, Douglas B. Downey and Benjamin G. Gibbs
* BOX: How Limited Internet Access Can Subtract from Kids' Education, Alina Selyukh
* 35. Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least?, Jeneen Interlandi
* BOX: Teaching While Afraid, Ashley Lamb-Sinclair
* 36. Staunching the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Mimi Kirk
* BOX: Teachers' Implicit Bias Starts in Preschool, Yolanda Young
* 37. The Dark Side of College (Un)Affordability: Food and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education, Katharine Broton and Sara Goldrick-Rab
* 38. Does Investing in Knowledge Still Pay the Best Interest?, Bailey A. Brown
Chapter 9: Social Problems Related to Families
* Activist Interview: Ana Hernandez
39. Families Facing Untenable Choices, Lisa Dodson and Wendy Luttrell
* BOX: The Diaper Dilemma, Jennifer Randles
40. Unmarried with Children, Kathryn J. Edin and Maria Kefalas
# 41. Does It Pay to Have Kids? Not for Working Moms, Kirstin Ralston-Coley
* 42. The Difference Between a Happy Marriage and a Miserable One: Chores, Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, Thomas N. Bradbury
* 43. Love Wins?, Amanda K. Baumle and D'Lane R. Compton
* 44. "Will They Take Me, Too?", Brooke Jarvis
45. Fighting Back, Tim Stelloh
Chapter 10: Social Problems Related to Health and the Healthcare System
Activist Interview: Elba L. Saavedra
# 46. They've Got a Pill for That: The Medicalization of Society, Stephanie Medley-Rath
47. Paying Till It Hurts: The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill, Elisabeth Rosenthal
48. Big Pharma Comes of Age, Rose Weitz
* 49. The Addicts Next Door, Margaret Talbot
* 50. Why America's Black Mothers and Babies are in a Life-or-Death Crisis, Linda Villarosa
51. What's Killing Poor White Women?, Monica Potts
* 52. Mechanisms by Which Anti-Immigrant Stigma Exacerbates Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities, Brittany N. Morey
53. How We Do Harm, Otis Webb Brawley and Paul Goldberg
Chapter 11: Social Problems Related to Crime and the Criminal Justice System
# Activist Interview: Nicole Porter
# 54. Mass Shootings, Masculinity, and Gun Violence as Social Problems, Tristan Bridges and Tara Leigh Tober
* BOX: Millions of Kids Haven't Lived through a School Shooting, but Fear that They Will, Petula Dvorak
# 55. Crimes of the Powerful: Crafting Criminality, Miriam Konrad and Angie Luvara
# BOX: Inequality in Life and Death: The Death Penalty in the United States, Erin Thomas
# 56. For-Profit Justice: How the Private Prison Industry and the Criminal Justice System Benefit from Mass Incarceration, Amanda Atwell and Amanda M. Jungels
BOX: How Prisons Change the Balance of Power in America, Heather Ann Thompson
* 57. Black Lives and Police Tactics Matter, Rory Kramer, Brianna Remster, and Camille Z. Charles
* BOX: The Tragic Fiction of Immigrant Threat, Watoii Rabii
Chapter 12: Social Problems Related to the Economy and Work
# Activist Interview: Ai-Jen Poo
* 58. Americans Want to Believe Jobs are the Solution to Poverty. They're Not., Matthew Desmond
* 59. I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare, Alana Semuels
* BOX: The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It's Automation., Claire Cain Miller
* 60. Exploitation and Abuse at the Chicken Plant, Michael Grabell
* 61. No Piece of the Pie: U.S. Food Workers in the United States, Food Chain Workers Alliance and Solidarity Research Cooperative
# 62. Gender Segregation at Work, Anastasia Prokos
* BOX: About Those 79 Cents, Adia Harvey Wingfield
63. The Case against Racial Colorblindness in the Workplace, Carmen Nobel
# BOX: What's in a Name? Discrimination, Erin Thomas
Chapter 13: Social Problems Related to the Environment and Food System
Activist Interview: Daniel R. Wildcat
64. Environmental Inequalities, Hollie Nyseth Brehm and David Pellow
* BOX: Flint Isn't the Only Place with Racism in the Water, Tracey Ross and Danyelle Solomon
* 65. The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
* 66. More Recycling Won't Solve Plastic Pollution, Matt Wilkins
* BOX: Making a Profit on Bottled Water, Eleanor Cummins
# 67. Why Beef is What's for Dinner: Agricultural Policy and its Implications, Emily Stutzman
* BOX: Deserts and Swamps: Inhospitable Foodscapes and Health, Claudia Tillman
68. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, Michael Moss
69. A Bug in the System: Why Last Night's Chicken Made You Sick, Wil S. Hylton
BOX: Consumers Fight Back, Food Chain Workers Alliance
Chapter 14: Strategies for Social Change
Activist Interview: Alicia Garza
70. Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted, Malcolm Gladwell
* 71. The Real Rosa Parks, Paul Rogat Loeb
# 72. Political Polarization in Contemporary American Society, Megan M. Tesene
* BOX: The Worst Voter Suppression We've Seen in the Modern Era, Zachary Roth, Wendy R. Weiser
73. What Can We Do? Becoming Part of the Solution, Allan G. Johnson
