All posts tagged "sociology social problems"

  • Religion Questions and Review

    What is the functionalist perspective of religion? What are the specific functions of religion? What is the conflict perspective of religion? Does religion perpetuate social inequality? How? What is “the opium of the people”? What do you...

    • Posted January 17, 2014
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  • THE FAMILY and “PLAYING FIELD”

    Our playing field is the situation we are born into and how it affects us. It is the tools we have to work with in our lives or what we have available to us and the specific...

    • Posted January 17, 2014
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  • Social Stratification

      Do you think we can predict what social class a person is in by his or her appearance? The house he or she lives in?  What about if the person has a big screen television? Actually...

    • Posted January 17, 2014
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  • Sexual Orientation and Social Inequality

    Most of our social institutions do not support homosexuals: politics (law: in some states to engage in homosexual conduct is a crime, same-sex marriages are not legal, and benefits to domestic partners is not universal), education (school...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • Marriage, Family, and Kinship Organization Notes

    Family as a Social Institution Organized Essential tasks Institution: system of norms, values, statuses, and roles Perform certain functions Marriage, business, the media, medicine, law, science, and recreation are also institutions Activity becomes institutionalized when accepted by...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • Intro to Social Problems

    There is a difference between a “personal trouble” and a “public issue.” Personal troubles affect individual people and others who are a part of their lives. A public issue affects a large number of individuals, are typically...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • Inequality in Education

    If we look at the history of education we can clearly see that there is a pattern and continues to be a pattern of inequality built into the institution of education. Historically education was for men, whites,...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • Health and Illness

    Health risks are unevenly distributed in the United States and around the world. Social factors play a major role in our individual health. The social factors that affect our health are associated with specific characteristic including: race,...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • Family Violence Notes

      Social Stresses on Families Stressor events Hardships How we respond to them – social learning ABCX Model of Stress (Image courtesy of imagerymajestic/FreeDigitalPhotos.net) A (the event) interacts with B (the family’s crisis-meeting resources) which interacts with...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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  • Deviance and Social Control

    Every year on Halloween night in a small town in Central California something happens. If you ask those who live in this town about their town they would say, “Nothing really exciting ever seems to happen in...

    • Posted January 16, 2014
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