Take care to incorporate course materials and readings where appropriate and cite sources. Ideally, your answers should consist of 2 to 4 paragraphs and weave in the social science perspective rather than punditry and memoir.
Every Question should incorporate Joel Best Social problems of claim and claims making, if possible.
Question 1
What does Michelle Alexander mean when she writes that mass incarceration is a racial caste system that extends the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow?
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Question 2
While the public often views the inner-city drug dealer as the villain in the war on drugs, discuss the role of the pharmaceutical industry in creating the modern-day opioid crisis.
Question 3
Despite the fact that vaccines are the most successful public health initiative of the last generation, explain how the opposition to vaccines has grown and convinced 20 percent of American adults to have serious concerns about vaccines. Review the best ways to combat disinformation about vaccines and the growing threat of the anti-vaxxer movement.
Question 4
Discuss how political leaders make opposing claims about immigration and immigrants in US society. Analyze how the Trump and the Obama administrations engaged in aggressive enforcement policies and deportation efforts despite constructing very different claims about immigration and promoting very different views of the villains and victims in this social problem.
Question 5
How does the sociologist William Julius Wilson offer an explanation for the rise of the urban ghetto and the concentration of poverty and disadvantage in racially segregated urban areas like North Philadelphia?
Use “Wilson, William J. 1996. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Random House.”
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