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Test Bank for Statistics for Seeing Social Problems The Hidden Stories Behind Contemporary Issues Silver
Downloadable Instructor Test Bank for Statistics for Seeing Social Problems The Hidden Stories Behind Contemporary Issues By Ira Silver, ISBN: 9781071802250, ISBN: 9781506386812
Table Of Content
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
First Impressions?
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
First Impressions?
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
First Impressions?
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
First Impressions?
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
First Impressions?
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
First impressions?
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
First impressions?
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
First impressions?
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
First impressions?
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
First impressions?
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
What do you know now?
Any time and place: how teens use technology to act cruely toward one another
First impressions?
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
First impressions?
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