SOC 112 Social Problems Syllabus Winter 2013

Course outline and materials:

Topics	Reading assignments	Additional resources
Section 1 Introduction	Day 1 Learning by Faith	Global issues. An amazing site for social problems.
Section 2 Theory	Theory Functionalism Conflict Symbolic Interaction
Section 3 Research	Research	Personality tests
Section 4 Wealth	Wealth Brigham Young on wealth	Social Inequality People like us My factory or theirs?
Section 5 Poverty	Poverty Some statistics Consumerism (read up to the section on “creating the consumer”	American Pictures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 US Department of Health and Human Services Take the Tour of Poverty USA US Census Bureau info Work we must, but the lunch is free. Hugh Nibley
Section 6 Power	Corporations Corporate power Corporate workers Elder Jeffrey R. Holland on power	Corporate Watchdog Sweat shops The Power Elite Censored news?
Section 7 Gender	Femininity Masculinity Gender differences	Gender Preventing gender violence The Repentance of Eve
Section 8 Race and Ethnicity	Race Ethnicity Ethnocentrism	Race and Ethnicity Black LDS
Section 9 Family	Family Parenting page	Sociology of the Family US Census Bureau - 2000
Section 10 Crime	Crime Corporate crime	Amnesty International - abolish the death penalty FBI - check out the Uniform Crime Reports BYU-Idaho crime report 2007
Section 11 Substances	Alcoholism and family Legalize Drugs, an essay	Don't Legalize Drugs, an essay Office of National Drug Control Policy National Institute on Drug Abuse
Section 12 Sexual Orientation	Myths by Evergreen Some basic information by Evergreen Growth by Evergreen Homophobia stats	LDS Family Services Elder Dallin H. Oaks Evergreen Gay, Married, Father, Mormon
Section 13 Prostitution and Pornography	Porn stats1 How prostitution works	President Gordon B. Hinckley
Section 14 Health	Medicine costs Video	Health Stats (Center for Disease Control) More info
Section 15 Age	Gray dawn Ageism	Excellent site!  Lots of info and links. Graypanthers  check out the "campaigns" links
Section 16 Education	Savage Inequalities More Brigham Young on Education
Section 17 Environment	The limits of the earth Water pollution Watch the video	Additional resources: Population Reference Bureau Earth Liberation Front Environmental Protection Agency
Section 18 Population	Population Overpopulation	Population Reference Bureau
Section 19 Technology	The end of privacy I The end of privacy II Technology and Society	Future pizza ordering Did you know?
Section 20 War	Arms trade The business Military expansion Read only the section titled, “Brigham on War”	School of the Americas School of the Americas Watch The Carter Center (Peace)
Section 21 Zion	Dialogue reading
Example of an "A" application	paper 1