Family and Education
This term describes the gap between students who have reliable access to technology and the internet for learning and those who do not, creating unequal educational opportunities
The digital divide
The acronym DSM-5 stands for?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
What term refers to the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms
Media literacy
Internationally, _________ has the highest rate of homicide of any wealthy democratic nation
The United States
A term used to describe the process where gases in the atmosphere trap the sun's heat and warm the Earth
Greenhouse Effect
The acronym ACEs stands for?
Adverse Childhood Experiences
_____________ surpassed starvation as the leading cause of malnutrition globally in 2025.
Obesity
A term that refers to media being designed for the primary viewer to be a man, and the object to be a woman
Male gaze
A field of study that is concerned with the opportunity structures that make crime possible
Environmental criminology
Broadly speaking, the greatest source of carbon dioxide emissions stems from this group of countries
High-income nations
These three trends—rising secularization, a shift toward individualism, and greater emphasis on education and career achievement—are all driving forces behind this major societal transformation.
A Shift in the Traditional Family
A word derived from Greek that means a place of refuge for those in need
Asylum
What social movement addressing the problem of sexual harassment went viral in the fall of 2017
#MeToo
A synthetic opioid that is 50-100 times stronger than morphine, and is often mixed in without the user's knowledge.
Fentanyl
According to scholars, what is the motivating factor behind a social movement?
Relative deprivation
a perceived gap in what people expect and what they get.
Regarding educational attainment, children who grow up in a low income household face a double burden. The term double burden refers to?
1) Fewer educational advantages at home
2) Fewer opportunities at school
According to Hatzenbuehler, Phelan, and Link (2013), labeling, stereotyping, separation, and discrimination are interrelated components referred to as?
Stigma
When images excessively represent narrow ideas of sexual appeal above all other qualities
Hypersexualization
What is the leading cause of death for children and teens in the U.S.
Firearm-related injuries
Regarding the scope of a social movement, expressive movements attempt to change
Individuals
(Instrumental Movements: attempt to change the structure of society)
The U.S. Supreme Court case (1896) that affirmed racial segregation under the principle "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
As discussed in class, name 3 of the 6 reasons why medical care has become so expensive.
The spread of private insurance
More doctors who specialize
More technology and the profit motive
A lack of preventive care
Aging population
More lawsuits
A social ideology that promotes unrealistic idealization of feminine attractiveness (Wolf 2002)
Beauty myth
According to Routine Activities Theory, what 3 factors must be simultaneously present for a crime to occur?
1. Motivated offender
2. Attractive targets
3. Absence of guardianship
A theoretical model that focuses on the relationship between social movements and structures of political opportunities.
Political process model.