Robert Heiner, assistant chair of the Department of Social Science and professor of Anthropology-Sociology

Intended to be a brief and inexpensive alternative to the usual textbooks used in social problems courses, this book employs one theoretical perspective that emphasizes the role played by the media and the rest of the corporate world in perpetuating many social problems. While the book is intended primarily for sociology students, Heiner says others “will find it an easy read and quite relevant to current political affairs.”