Social Problems
Scope and Sequence
Unit 1 -September
What makes a problem "Social"?
Text chapter 1
Pretesting, Collegiality, Internet practices.Macrosocial Problems- Chapters 2, 13 and 16
Complex society and its consequences: Work and and Global Economies: Displaced and Dislocated -the Universal Alien,
Complex society and its consequences: Modern Wealth and Poverty, Education and Ignorance, Cities and Slums.
Unit 2- October
Difference, Diversity, Distinctions and Discriminations
Identities and Inequality
Problems arising from Gender, Age, Kinships - family, faith, nation and race.
Chapters 3,4,5,6, Chapter 11MIDTERM EXAM
Unit 3 -November
Knowledge,Skills, Fitness - Problems arising in lifecycles - Health, learning, common problems of individuals and the institutions meant to respond.Mass media, schooling, technologies -their promise and their fallout
Chapters10, 8, 9, 12, 14
Unit 4 - November and December
Permanent and Pervasive Warfare - Conflict, crusades, jihads, going beserk, hot and cold wars, vengeance, vendetta, blood-money, retribution - Feuding in the Global Village.
Chapters 17, 16, 15RESEARCH PAPERS DUE (rubric for evaluating research papers)
FINAL EXAM