Test Bank (Downloadable Product) for Statistics for Seeing Social Problems The Hidden Stories Behind Contemporary Issues By Ira Silver, ISBN: 9781071802250, ISBN: 9781506386812

Social Problems are Everywhere

First Impressions?

The Virtue of Sociology: Opening Your Eyes to the Hidden World Around You

Viewing Our Society Through Different Lenses

Recognizing That Social Problems Have Diverse Explanations

What Do You Know Now?

Struggling to get Ahead in the Land of Opportunity

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The Opportunity Divide: How American Society Produces Economic Inequality

Blocked Opportunities: How Social Forces Impede Low-Income Youth from Living the Dream

Tarnished Hopes: How Poverty Impedes Low-Income People’s Motivations to get Ahead

A Personal Tale from the Other Side of the Opportunity Divide: How Social Forces Bolster Success

Rethinking Welfare: How the Sociological Perspective Can Inform Your Understanding of Who Deserves Help

Taking Collective Responsibility: Why the Withering of the American Dream is Everyone’s Problem

What Do You Know Now?

Violent Encounters Between Cops and People of Color

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Assigning Personal Blame – Either to Bad Cops or to Dangerous Black Men

Responding to Public Fears: Police Brutality as a Byproduct of Getting Tough on Crime

The Hidden Roots of Crime: How Race Shapes Opportunity

Taking a Deeper Look at Videos of Police Violence: Seeing the Sociological Stories Behind the Footage

What Do You Know Now?

Crack and Opioids: A Tale of Two Drug Epidemics

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Race and the Social Construction of Drugs

The Racial Inequalities Underlying Drug Enforcement

Policing Drugs by Creating Scapegoats

It’s Hardly as Simple as “Just Say No:” The Social Forces Contributing to Drug Abuse

What Do You Know Now?

Thin is in: The Social Construction of Body Size

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Bias Without Boundaries: The Pervasiveness of Size Discrimination in American Society

The Elephant in the Room: Explaining Why Obesity is Most Prevalent in Low-Income Communities

Feeling the Weight: Why People of Average Size May be Insecure About Their Bodies

Debunking Conventional Wisdom About Body Size

What Do You Know Now?

Parental Anxiety Gone Wild: Raising Kids in a Society Where Sexualized Images are Everywhere

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Who’s Doing What and When? Shifting Views About Sex, Birth Control, and Pregnancy

Dim Hopes for the Future: Highlighting the Social Forces that Contribute to Teens Having Babies

“Acting Like Sluts:” How the Individual Perspective Toward Teen Parents Reinforces Gender Inequality

Reducing Teen Pregnancy: Early Educational Opportunity is Key

Looking Cross-Culturally; Exposing an Alternative Way to Understand Teens and Sex

What Do You Know Now?

From champ to chump: how Lance Armstrong tarnished his reputation riding the road to victory

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A sketchy path to the top: doping in sports

Striving to be #1: competing in a winner-take-all society

Challenging the conventional wisdom about who’s a cheater

When second best feels like losing: the medicalization of imperfection

Game on: seeing cheating as a way to conform with mainstream american values

What do you know now?

Making sense of the senseless: exploring what drives mass shooters to commit acts of destruction

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Seeking revenge: seeing mass shootings as efforts by disrespected males to get even

The columbine effect: how online networks enable aggrieved males to plot the next rampage

Violence without outrage: how mass shootings resemble riots

Cementing their legacy as “real men:” how rampage reporting immortalizes toxic masculinity

What do you know now?

Publicizing trauma: how social media has brought gender violence out of the shadows

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Exhibiting entitlement: gender violence as a display of masculine power

Adding insult to injury: why blaming gender violence survivors for their victimization is part of the problem

“Be a man”: violence as a socially acceptable expression of masculinity

Seeing gender violence as everyone’s problem

What do you know now?

Feeling their pain: exploring why stories of animal cruelty so deeply affects us

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Gory thrills: making sense of the pleasure some people get from mistreating animials

Tastes so cruel: exposing the hidden workings of the factory farming system

Confronting our inhumanity: a look at efforts to cease the practice of animal entertainment

The payoff of the sociological perspective: seeing who we are through our relationships with animals

What do you know now?

Careful who you friend: exploring the predatory behavior of strangers who lurk on the internet

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Unequal childhoods: exposing why some kids are more prone than others to online exploitation by strangers

Overprotecting children: the unintended consequences of minimizizing the risks of growing up

Strangers with benefits: discovering the advantages of interacting with unfamiliar people in public

Thinking straight about threats children

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Any time and place: how teens use technology to act cruely toward one another

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A peek inside teen culture: uncovering the social forces that underlie cyberbullying

Not a solitary act of desperatioin: exposing social forces that lead teens to die from suicide

No meaner than prior generations: getting to the root of kids’ maliciousness toward one another

What do you know now?

Diseases of the mind: exploring the wide spectrum of psychiatric disorders

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Conditions that no blood test can prove: the social construction of mental illness

Inexact science: the diagnosis and misdiagnosis of ADHD

Being sad when you’re supposed to be happy: how American culture influences the experience of depression

“Feeling crazy:” How gender shapes the ways people think about and cope with mental illness

People whose minds are merely different: challenging the stigma associated with mental illness

Benefit #1: Recognizing different realities

Benefit #2: Expanding your focus

Benefit #3: Getting to the heart of the matter