Problems & Perspectives
A social condition or pattern of behavior that has negative consequences for individuals and our social world
What is a social probelm?
Measured using gross assets and net worth
How is wealth measured?
The recognition of one's situation as unjust
What is cognitive liberation?
The socio-economic class that creates the most jobs
What is the middle-class?
ACT Up
What is another name for the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power?
Argued that sociology is a thing to be lived
Who is Lemert?
The ability to link our personal lives and experiences with our social world
What is the sociological imagination?
The original federal poverty measure developed by the Social Security Administration
What is the poverty threshold?
The policy that provided assistance for work relief during the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
According to the film, this class spends too little
What is the upper class?
ACT UP is considered this type of social change
What is expressive social movement?
The theorist who proposed that the function of society is to control individual actors
Who is Durkheim?
Food insecurity is higher for this type of group
What is single female-headed households?
Measured by education and economic factors
What is SES?
The Court case that desegregated schools in the US
What is Brown v. the Board of Education?
One way families coped with the flattening wages in the mid 1970s
What is either: women joining the workforce, people working longer hours and taking second or third jobs, or homeowners using their houses as piggy banks?
The only drug available to slow the progression of HIV
What is AZT?
Theorist who coined the term life chances
Who is Max Weber?
This perspective examines the functions or consequences of the structure of society
What is functionalism?
Examines economic inequality across the world
What is the Champagne glass distribution?
The centerpiece of the social welfare system
What is the Social Security Act?
The reason women entered the workforce in the 1970s
What is stagnating family incomes?
ACT UP's efforts led to the creation of this
What is the International AIDS Conference?
Theorist who claimed social structures can have positive benefits and negative consequences, also known as dysfunctions
Who is Merton?
This perspective considers how society is held together by power and coercion for the benefit of those in power
Measurement of economic inequality within any country
What is the GINI-index?
Intended to reduce dependence on government assistance
What is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996?
The country that Reich suggests the US should try to be like in order to reduce economic inequality
What is the US? (bonus: in the late 1900s)
The main aim of ACT UP
What is to pressure drug companies and U.S. government to pursue a treatment and cure for AIDS?
Theorists who founded the social constructionism perspective
Who are Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann?