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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wealthy but unfashionable area known as the "West Egg". However‚ behind the lavish displays of wealth and spectacular gatherings‚ the author exposes many social and human problems facing the inhabitants of Long Island. His use of: realistic writing‚ first person narrative‚ symbolism all help to convey his message to the reader. The main topic or problem raised by the author in the novel is the hollowness of the upper class. The Great Gatsby focuses around the lifestyle of the self-made millionaires living
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provided with the same constitutional rights as any other citizen. Economically‚ Native Americans have an uneven level of success across the nation. Currently‚ there are relatively 2.8 million Native Americans in the US. Presently‚ there are severe social problems including unemployment and poverty for Native Americans. Health wise‚ diabetes and heart diseases are a big concern for Native Americans now. I believe that Native Americans were better off before the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Even though some
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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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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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Social Problems - Prison Reform Is it time to give up on rehabilitating criminals? Nearly one in every one hundred adults in the United States is in jail or prison today. With such a high number of Americans going to prison and eventually trying to re-enter society with a chance of becoming law abiding citizens they must be prepared for life on the outside. Survival is one of the key elements of human nature. People will do whatever they feel necessary to survive; due to the lack of
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is‚ what social problems are‚ and what sociological problems are ‚ how they overlap and we will also look into what sociologists do and look into Robert Merton’s strain theory‚ and also other sociologists views like William Chambliss’s ‘roughnecks and saints’. A crime is the breaking of certain rules laid out by a society i.e. the Government. Crime is said to be ‘activities that break the law and are subject to official punishment (Holborn and Haralambos‚ 2000‚ pg. 330) All social norms are
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References: Local Chua (2003) stated in his “Heart to Heart Talk: Is Your Drinking Water Safe?” that Water purification is now both a science and a technology Foreign Gil and Passino (2004) purification of drinking water is a very important problem in environmental engineering Local Israel (2009) Potable or drinking water is a critical requirement of human life
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Discuss some Problems in Establishing Objectivity in Social Science * Scientists have heralded ‘objectivity’ as their shibboleth‚ warranting a perceived superior or privileged position relative to other forms of knowing. George Simmel‚ (1858 – 1918) for example‚ saw objectivity as the greatest achievement of Western cultural history. In recent decades however‚ the ‘magnificent Minotaur’ of objectivity (Gouldner‚ 1961-62: 1) has been pushed back into its lair‚ accused of acting as a subterfuge
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