Intro To Soc Problems (Chapter 1)
This is a social condition that a segment of society views as harmful to members of society and in need of remedy.
What is a "social problem"?
Referring to a trailblazer, innovator, forerunner, or leader of a unit, this is the name of the mascot of our beloved VGCC.
What is a "vanguard"?
This North Carolina city is home to the North Carolina Zoo.
What is Asheboro?
This concept refers to the tendency for people to act in a manner consistent with the expectations of others.
The deliberate, systematic annihilation of an entire nation or people.
genocide
A prediction or educated guess about how one variable is related to another variable in research.
What is a "hypothesis"?
Who is the current President of Vance-Granville Community College?
Who is Dr. Rachael Desmarais?
This North Carolina city is known as the Queen City or the "QC" for short.
What is Charlotte?
Most of your classmates identified this issue as being the most challenging problems within our educational system today.
What is underfunding?
A category of people who are perceived to share distinct physical characteristics that are deemed socially significant.
Race
The meanings and ways of life that characterizes a society, including beliefes, values, norms, sanctions, and symbols.
These colors represent Vance-Granville Community College.
What are green and gold?
The tree cities that make up what is known as the Research Triangle are?
What are Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill?
Consequences that are intended and commonly recognized, like teaching skills and information in a classroom setting.
maninfest functions
A public health insurance program, jointly funded by federal and state governments, that provides health insurance coverage for the poor who meet eligibility requirements.
Medicaid
The growing economic, cultural, and technological interdependence between countries and regions.
What is "globalization"?
In addition to Vance, Granville, and Franklin counties, VGCC also hosts a campus in one other North Carolina county.
What is "Warren" county?
This North Carolina University had the first four year medical school in the United States.
Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina
State-funded "scholarships" paid directly to parents that can be used to send qualifying public school students to private school schools.
school vouchers
Areas where residents lack access to grocery stores that sell fresh fruits and vegetables, and instead rely on convenience stores and fast-food chains tht sell mostly high-calorie processed food.
food deserts
Means by which social change is realized.
What is the "South" campus.
This North Carolina sports team plays its home games at PNC Arena in Raleigh and has a mascot called Stormy.
Who are the Carolina Hurricanes?
A metaphoric pathway created when severe and targeted disciplinary actions are levied as punishment in lieu of learning
School-to-prison pipeline
The growing economic, cultural, and technological interdepenence between countries and regions
globalization