Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action
Video and Multimedia
Video
Learning Objective: Describe how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to the family. Summarize the effects of divorce on children
Description: Social changes have combined to cause a feminization of poverty and a high percentage of children living in poverty. Economic change: two incomes are needed to support a family. The rising divorce rate and decrease in marriages means that affected children fall into poverty, something that is especially true for minority children.
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between physical abuse and neglect
Description: PSA where a boy and girl playing house also play “domestic violence” with captions at the end.
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between physical abuse and neglect
Description: TEDx Talk One woman’s story about the slow growth of violence in her relationship, describing the typical pattern of abuse during her relationship with an abuser, why she married him and the story she used to make it all right, until she realized she had to leave.
Learning Objective: Describe how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to the family. Explain the difference between physical abuse and neglect
Description: Short promotion education on the problem with causes, victim profiles, and arguments to pass legislation to educate the public about the extent of the problem.
Learning Objective: Describe how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to the family.
Description: Changing roles at home due to women working outside the home. Women are doing a lot less, and men are doing a little more. Disproportionate change makes for tension at home. Hochschild’s “stalled revolution.”
Learning Objective: Identify why the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is the highest in the developed w
Description: A homecoming queen, a boy who didn’t know his father and 14 year old—all parents—are interviewed. ABC Primetime excerpt about the lives of these teens, plus the two options schools use to teach reproduction: abstinence and birth control preparedness.
Audio
Learning Objective: Describe how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to the family.
Description: NPR story on the emotional/behavioral trouble in children of deployed military. Anxiety, worry and sadness are increased in these children.
Learning Objective: Describe how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to the family Summarize the effects of divorce on children
Description: Examines the challenges of traditional marriage and the confusion caused by non-traditional couples. Choose among segments on the Family: family education in high school, the Defense of Marriage Act, choosing divorce and social research on marriage with John Gottman.
Web Resources
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between cohabitation and marriage
Description: NY Times website that allows you to build a household and see what percentage of US households are similar. Can be used to build family units.
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between cohabitation and marriage
Description: The age at which a person makes a commitment to a partner, whether to live together or to wed, makes a difference on the success of the relationship. Waiting until age 23 decreased the divorce rate to 30 percent from 60 percent for 18 year-olds. With links to research.
Learning Objective: Explain the difference between physical abuse and neglect
Description: CNN article on Ward’s story with more details than in textbook.
Learning Objective: Describe how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to the family.
Description: Salon commentary by a mom sentenced to community service after briefly leaving her young daughters alone in a car. This reflects changing norms, high pressure and equally high stakes.
Learning Objective: Describe how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to the family. Explain the difference between physical abuse and neglect
Description: The Elder Justice Act has been passed, but has not been fully funded. More information from the National Council on Aging.