Pellissippi State Community College | Homosexuality | Same-sex marriage: A true social problem | | Tabitha K. Robbins | 3/28/2013 | Author Note This paper was prepared for Sociology 1020‚ Section WW1‚ taught by Professor Marsha Hupfel. In today’s society‚ Gays/Lesbians are fighting for equality rights. For the past several years’ politics‚ religious groups‚ and individual society has battled the legalization of same-sex marriages with some success and some setbacks. States currently
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abortion in Tehran‚ Iran: estimated rates and correlates. Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2011; 37: 134 – 142. Kasmaei P‚ Atrkar Roshan Z. Prevalence and correlated factors with unintended pregnancies [in Persian]. J Med Sci Gilan. 2004; 12: 61 – 66. Rakhshani F‚ Ansari Moghaddam AR‚ Tehrani H. Prevalence of unwanted pregnancy and associated factors in Zahedan‚ 1999 [in Persian]. Res Med Sci. 2004; 8: 40 – 43. PLoS Med. 2007; 4: e297. women referring to healthcare centers of Ardabil‚ 2002 [in Persian]. J
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u02d1 Typification of Social Problems Discussion ~ The types of problems that exist within society vary considerably in their structure‚ severity and function. The very existence of the social problem depends upon the person that has constructed the framework that describes or illustrates the social issue being focused on (McKinney‚ 1969). When a social problem is being typified‚ it means to apply an understanding or claim as to why a social problem exists (Best‚ 1997). Best (1997)
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Social Problem within the United States In 1999 around 16 million children were living in a single parent household with their mothers‚ and almost 6 million children were living with only their fathers or with no parents at all (Fields and Casper‚ internet). The European Commission has reported that the percentage of children living with only one parent has grown from 8% to 13% in the last fifteen years. Population projections in the United States estimate that half of the children born in the 1990’s
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development. The social and economic factors influence crime trends over the longer term while other factors such as changes in the percentage of young males in the population may mask the effect over the short term. Given the increased numbers of young people who will be exposed to serious disadvantage in the coming years‚ it makes sense that effort to address social and economic problems take priority. Conversely‚ because amendments to young offender legislation cannot address factors most highly correlated
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Jay Santos CSI-194-500 Ethic and the Information Age Does Social Media Cause Psychological Problems ? In the information world where social media Web sites had become part of almost everybody’s lives‚ disseminating personal information had become easy and larger in terms of scope and scale and anybody who has access to the internet can easily do so. Anybody who has access to this social media website can reveal news of engagements and breakups‚ job gains and losses‚ or even news of life and death;
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DRUG ABUSE AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM AMONG YOUTH Drug abuse is now surprisingly a major social problem that has sprouted out and is greatly harming our economy. Drug abuse in my own opinion is when drugs are not taken at the right time or in correct proportions. However‚ one can only limit drug abuse to taking hard drugs such as cocaine‚ nicotine‚ marijuana‚ etc. This is the kind of drug abuse that has a huge influence on the youth of today.
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1995. [3] P. Bonacich. Simultaneous group and individual centralities. Social Networks‚ 13:155–168‚ 1991. [4] K.A. Butler. Some problems in paired comparisons and goodness of fit for logistic regressions. PhD Thesis‚ Simon Fraser University‚ 1997. [5] L.C. Freeman‚ S.P. Borgatti‚ and D.R. White. Centrality in valued graphs: A measure of betweenness based on network flow. Social Networks‚ 13:141–154‚ 1991. [6] M.O. Jackson. Social and Economic Networks. Princeton University Press‚ Princeton‚ NJ‚ USA
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In Carole Vance’s “Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of Sexuality‚” some gay rights activist may find the social construction approach to sexuality problematic. One of Vance’s critiques of social construction is that it implies a gay or lesbian sexuality is unreal. To illustrate this‚ If I told my gay friends that their love is socially constructed‚ they would argue back that their love is indescribable‚ like an essentialist where they feel that their sexality is innate‚ biological
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Social Problems Exam #2 Study Guide This study guide is intended to provide you with a fairly comprehensive list of concepts that you should know for this exam. Keep in mind that your exams will be created from a larger pool of questions‚ so it is possible that you will not see a question over everything on this list. Chapter 6: Characteristics of urban and suburban areas Urban-suburban shifts over the past 50 years Deindustrialization Corporate movements Mortgage lending practices and redlining
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