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
According to the CDC, what factor was primarily responsible for the first wave of the drug crisis in the late 1990s?
Major increase in prescribing prescription opioids
As AI computing demands increase, usage of this resource is estimated to triple over the next 25 years.
Water
(Note: Global Water Intelligence projected that the water drawn for cooling would more than triple over the next 25 years as computing demand rises)
The acronym ACEs stands for?
Adverse Childhood Experiences
According to Hatzenbuehler, Phelan, and Link (2013), labeling, stereotyping, separation, and discrimination are interrelated components referred to as?
Stigma
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
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.
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
During the second wave, what drug emerged as an alternative to prescription pills?
Heroin
How many units of power do the largest data centers consume in a year
2 terawatts (or two trillion watts)
Fun fact: 2TWh could power about 200,000 homes
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
The process of releasing people from mental hospitals into local communities is referred to as?
(Hint: occurred during the twentieth century)
Deinstitutionalization
When images excessively represent narrow ideas of sexual appeal above all other qualities
Hypersexualization
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 (or theory)
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
A synthetic opioid emerging on the streets that is stronger than fentanyl.
Carfentanyl
(used as a tranquilizer for very large animals like elephants)
(Fentanyl and carfentanyl are so strong that even touching or inhaling them can be lethal)
Regarding the scope of a social movement, expressive movements attempt to change
Individuals
(Instrumental Movements: attempt to change the structure of society)