Seeing Social Problems: The Hidden Stories Behind Contemporary Issues
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781544398648
ISBN-10: 1544398646
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 187 x 232 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN-10: 1544398646
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 187 x 232 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
Cuprins
Preface:
To
the
Instructor
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1 • Looking beyond What You Already Know: Becoming Curious about Social Problems
Social Problems Are Everywhere
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?
Key Terms
Chapter 2 • Opportunity for Few: The Withering of the American Dream
Struggling to Get Ahead in the Land of Opportunity
The Opportunity Divide: How American Society Produces Economic Inequality
Blocked Opportunities: How Social Forces Impede Low-Income Youth from Living the Dream
Tarnished Hopes for the Future: 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 Widen 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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 3 • “I Can’t Breathe”: Policing, Race, and Violence
Violent Encounters between Cops and People of Color
Assigning Personal Blame, Either to Bad Cops or to Dangerous Black Men
Responding to Public Fears: Police Brutality as a By-product of Getting Tough on Crime
The Hidden Roots of Crime: How Race Shapes Opportunity
The Sociological Stories behind the Footage: Taking a Deeper Look at Police Violence Videos
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 4 • The Color of Drug Abuse: Handcuffs for Some Addicts, Help for Others
Crack and Opioids: A Tale of Two Drug Epidemics
Race and the Social Construction of Drugs
The Racial Inequalities Underlying Drug Enforcement
Policing Drugs by Creating Scapegoats
Not as Simple as “Just Say No”: The Social Forces Contributing to Drug Abuse
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 5 • Slim Chances: Weight Anxiety in a Society That Prizes Thinness
Thin Is In: The Social Construction of Body Size
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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 6 • What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Uncovering the Roots of Teen Pregnancy
Parental Anxiety Gone Wild: Raising Kids in a Society Where Sexualized Images Are Everywhere
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 Pregnancy 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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 7 • “Everybody’s Doing It”: Getting Ahead by Cheating
From Champ to Chump: How Lance Armstrong Tarnished His Reputation Riding the Road to Victory
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 Values
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 8 • Living in Infamy: Mass Shootings as Enduring Expressions of Masculinity
Making Sense of the Senseless: Exploring What Drives Mass Shooters to Commit Acts of Destruction
Seeking Revenge: Viewing 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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 9 • #MeToo: Why Gender Violence Is Everyone’s Problem
Publicizing Trauma: How Social Media Has Brought Gender Violence out of the Shadows
Exhibiting Entitlement: Gender Violence as a Display of Male Power
Adding Insult to Injury: Why Blaming Gender Violence Survivors for Their Victimization Contributes to 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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 10 • Bearing Witness to Inhumanity: Making Sense of Cruelty to Animals
Feeling Their Pain: Exploring Why Animal Cruelty So Deeply Affects Us
Gory Thrills: Making Sense of the Pleasure Some People Get from Abusing Animals
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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 11 • “Better Safe Than Sorry”: Protecting Children from Strangers and Other Dangers
Careful Who You Friend: Exploring the Predatory Behavior of Strangers Lurking on the Internet
Unequal Childhoods: Exposing Why Some Kids Are More Prone Than Others to Online Exploitation by Strangers
Overprotecting Children: The Unintended Consequences of Safeguarding Kids from Risk
Strangers with Benefits: Discovering the Advantages of Interacting with Unfamiliar People in Public
Thinking Straight about Threats to Children
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 12 • Have Kids Gotten Meaner? An Up-Close Look at Cyberbullying and Suicide
Any Time and Place: How Teens Use Technology to Act Cruelly toward One Another
A Peek Inside Teen Culture: Uncovering Social Forces That Give Rise to Cyberbullying
Not a Solitary Act of Desperation: Exposing Social Forces That Lead Teens to Die from Suicide
Getting to the Root of Kids’ Meanness toward One Another
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 13 • “You’re Such a Downer”: Why Mental Illness Goes beyond Personal Suffering
Diseases of the Mind: Exploring the Wide Array of Psychiatric Disorders
Conditions Blood Tests Cannot Prove: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Inexact Science: Explaining Cases Where ADHD Is Misdiagnosed
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
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 14 • Eyes Wide Open: The Benefits of Seeing Social Problems from Multiple Perspectives
Benefit #1: Recognizing Different Realities
Benefit #2: Expanding Your Focus
Benefit #3: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Benefit #4: Looking Inward
Notes
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1 • Looking beyond What You Already Know: Becoming Curious about Social Problems
Social Problems Are Everywhere
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?
Key Terms
Chapter 2 • Opportunity for Few: The Withering of the American Dream
Struggling to Get Ahead in the Land of Opportunity
The Opportunity Divide: How American Society Produces Economic Inequality
Blocked Opportunities: How Social Forces Impede Low-Income Youth from Living the Dream
Tarnished Hopes for the Future: 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 Widen 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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 3 • “I Can’t Breathe”: Policing, Race, and Violence
Violent Encounters between Cops and People of Color
Assigning Personal Blame, Either to Bad Cops or to Dangerous Black Men
Responding to Public Fears: Police Brutality as a By-product of Getting Tough on Crime
The Hidden Roots of Crime: How Race Shapes Opportunity
The Sociological Stories behind the Footage: Taking a Deeper Look at Police Violence Videos
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 4 • The Color of Drug Abuse: Handcuffs for Some Addicts, Help for Others
Crack and Opioids: A Tale of Two Drug Epidemics
Race and the Social Construction of Drugs
The Racial Inequalities Underlying Drug Enforcement
Policing Drugs by Creating Scapegoats
Not as Simple as “Just Say No”: The Social Forces Contributing to Drug Abuse
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 5 • Slim Chances: Weight Anxiety in a Society That Prizes Thinness
Thin Is In: The Social Construction of Body Size
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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 6 • What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Uncovering the Roots of Teen Pregnancy
Parental Anxiety Gone Wild: Raising Kids in a Society Where Sexualized Images Are Everywhere
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 Pregnancy 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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 7 • “Everybody’s Doing It”: Getting Ahead by Cheating
From Champ to Chump: How Lance Armstrong Tarnished His Reputation Riding the Road to Victory
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 Values
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 8 • Living in Infamy: Mass Shootings as Enduring Expressions of Masculinity
Making Sense of the Senseless: Exploring What Drives Mass Shooters to Commit Acts of Destruction
Seeking Revenge: Viewing 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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 9 • #MeToo: Why Gender Violence Is Everyone’s Problem
Publicizing Trauma: How Social Media Has Brought Gender Violence out of the Shadows
Exhibiting Entitlement: Gender Violence as a Display of Male Power
Adding Insult to Injury: Why Blaming Gender Violence Survivors for Their Victimization Contributes to 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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 10 • Bearing Witness to Inhumanity: Making Sense of Cruelty to Animals
Feeling Their Pain: Exploring Why Animal Cruelty So Deeply Affects Us
Gory Thrills: Making Sense of the Pleasure Some People Get from Abusing Animals
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?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 11 • “Better Safe Than Sorry”: Protecting Children from Strangers and Other Dangers
Careful Who You Friend: Exploring the Predatory Behavior of Strangers Lurking on the Internet
Unequal Childhoods: Exposing Why Some Kids Are More Prone Than Others to Online Exploitation by Strangers
Overprotecting Children: The Unintended Consequences of Safeguarding Kids from Risk
Strangers with Benefits: Discovering the Advantages of Interacting with Unfamiliar People in Public
Thinking Straight about Threats to Children
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 12 • Have Kids Gotten Meaner? An Up-Close Look at Cyberbullying and Suicide
Any Time and Place: How Teens Use Technology to Act Cruelly toward One Another
A Peek Inside Teen Culture: Uncovering Social Forces That Give Rise to Cyberbullying
Not a Solitary Act of Desperation: Exposing Social Forces That Lead Teens to Die from Suicide
Getting to the Root of Kids’ Meanness toward One Another
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 13 • “You’re Such a Downer”: Why Mental Illness Goes beyond Personal Suffering
Diseases of the Mind: Exploring the Wide Array of Psychiatric Disorders
Conditions Blood Tests Cannot Prove: The Social Construction of Mental Illness
Inexact Science: Explaining Cases Where ADHD Is Misdiagnosed
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
What Do You Know Now?
Key Terms
Notes
Chapter 14 • Eyes Wide Open: The Benefits of Seeing Social Problems from Multiple Perspectives
Benefit #1: Recognizing Different Realities
Benefit #2: Expanding Your Focus
Benefit #3: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Benefit #4: Looking Inward
Notes
Glossary
Index
Descriere
Seeing
Social
Problems:
The
Hidden
Stories
Behind
Contemporary
Issuesshows
students
how
to
think
about
social
problems
in
a
new
way,
by
carefully
analyzing
headline-making
issues
they
are
already
familiar
with
and
illustrating
the
connection
between
individual
problems
and
larger
social
forces.