Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action
Video and Multimedia
Video
Learning Objective: Compare the processes of urbanization and suburbanization.
Description: The housing bubble contributed to a high foreclosure rate in Pinellas County, FL. Mortgages are very difficult to get, and competition for rental housing has made even substandard housing unaffordable. People describe the struggle to get and stay in housing, even with more than one income.
Learning Objective: Summarize how the sociological perspectives explain urbanization and its related social problems.
Description: Answering the challenge for homeless who need support, agencies all gather in one place for a day, so referrals are easy for those who attend. The concept began in San Francisco and is spreading.
Learning Objective: Describe the sustainable community movement.
Description: It’s not just time that is lost when people have long commutes; there is a higher likelihood of problems with weight, blood pressure and even marriages. The healthy answer is to make your commute active: walk or bike instead of using motorized transportation.
Audio
Learning Objective: Summarize how the sociological perspectives explain urbanization and its related social problems.
Description: A journalist tells her own story of homelessness. As a child, she once lived in an unheated shack, but eventually attended Barnard College and became a successful journalist. Shame and the complexity of homelessness kept her from admitting her poverty for fear people would “throw rocks.”
Learning Objective: Summarize how the sociological perspectives explain urbanization and its related social problems. Describe the sustainable community movement.
Description: After a severe tornado destroyed Greensboro, KS, one resident ran for mayor and led the “green” rebuilding effort associated with progressive Democrats, but he’s Republican.
Web Resources
Learning Objective: Explain how a population is affected by its age distribution or ethnic composition.
Description: Interactive map that shows national population movement by state in a responsive visual graphic. Percentage of native born, residents from other states and countries for each state, plus the places those who left their native moved to. Includes historical migration patterns (1900, 1950 and 2012).
Learning Objective: Explain how a population is affected by its age distribution or ethnic composition.
Description: The change over time in some of the key measures of success in the U.S. including home ownership.
Learning Objective: Compare the processes of urbanization and suburbanization. Describe the sustainable community movement.
Description: Urban density is associated with increased respiratory disease. Especially in poor cities, disease spreads rapidly. The problems are expected to increase as an increasing proportion of people continue moving to cities.
Learning Objective: Compare the processes of urbanization and suburbanization. Summarize how the sociological perspectives explain urbanization and its related social problems. Analyze the pros and cons of gentrification. Describe the sustainable community movement.
Description: Johnson builds his businesses in Black communities. Explore this site and the link to the Magic Johnson Foundation to investigate the current projects and business partners.
Learning Objective: Compare the processes of urbanization and suburbanization. Summarize how the sociological perspectives explain urbanization and its related social problems. Analyze the pros and cons of gentrification.
Description: The Harlem section of NYC is undergoing gentrification, and there is a battle over how it should be developed.
Learning Objective: Compare the processes of urbanization and suburbanization. Summarize how the sociological perspectives explain urbanization and its related social problems. Describe the sustainable community movement.
Description: Handbook from the Minnesota Extension Service with definitions, tools and activities to build community.