Welcome to Allyn & Bacon’s Social Problems Companion Web Site. Here you will find a variety of exciting and useful features to assist you in your Social Problems course.
To find out how the 14 Problem Areas on this site relate to the chapters in your Allyn & Bacon textbook, go to the Text Correlations page and click on the cover of the book you are using.
Some of the other features of this site are:
Research and News
Here you will find a collection of articles on social problems from past issues of the New York Times.
Your Research Navigator subscription will enable you to find additional articles on social problems from hundreds of leading scholarly journals, general interest magazines, and from the most current issue of the New York Times. You will also find other helpful resource information here. All of the Suggested Readings listed on this site are available through the ContentSelect search engine in Research Navigator. The easiest way to retrieve an article is to enter the seven-digit Article Number included in the citation for each article.
To use ContentSelect and New York Times, click the logo below to be taken to the Research Navigator registration page. First-time users should have their 6-word access code string available. This access code can be found packaged with a number of Allyn & Bacon social problems texts and supplements.
Book Specific Resources
Here you will find text specific practice tests.
To begin, choose a problem area from the drop down menu above.
For the Instructor
Problem Area: General Sociology, Applied Sociology, and Social Problems
Problem Area: Aging Society and Inequalities of Age
Problem Area: Crime, Violence, Drugs, and the Criminal Justice System
Problem Area: Economic and Political Inequality--U.S. and Global
Problem Area: Problems of Education
Problem Area: Environmental Quality as a Social Problem
Problem Area: Problems of Families and Family Violence
Problem Area: Problems of Gender Inequality
Problem Area: Problems of Health, Illness, and Health Care Delivery
Problem Area: Problems of Population, Immigration, and Urbanization
Problem Area: Problems of Poverty and Work
Problem Area: Problems of Racial and Ethnic Inequality
Problem Area: Problems of Sexual Behavior and Sexual Orientation
Problem Area: Problems of Social Change: Science and Technology
Book Specific Resources
In this section you will find several text-specific online study guides. Select your book from the left.
