Social Problems: A Supplementary Reader to Race, Class, and Gender Anthologies
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 426
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This reader serves as a supplement to anthologies that introduce students to social problems in the United States. This reader offers a collection of articles that augment students’ critical analysis of race, class, gender, and sexuality, topics most frequently covered in social problems anthologies. The articles in this reader cut across content areas, providing foundational tools for students to contextualize arguments typically made in discussions about social issues.
Several different types of tools are represented in this collection. The reader provides articles on thinking critically in the social sciences, such as how to use data to support an argument and how to increase media literacy when reading popular press articles on social scientific findings. The reader also offers articles that examine the United States in a global context, offering students an understanding of how U.S. social issues fit within a larger conversation across nations. Furthermore, the reader provides contrasting positions on trending issues, such as microaggressions and inviting controversial speakers to campus. These contrasting positions, which are not always offered in race, class, and gender anthologies, can be used to increase students’ understanding of how and why arguments contrast across ideological and political party lines.
The Social Problems Supplementary Reader is especially relevant for introductory-level interdisciplinary courses in the social sciences and general education courses that concern diversity.
SECTION 1: THINKING CRITICALLY IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
What Is Evidence? by V. R. Ruggiero
Logical Fallacies by Maureen Linker
Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Inuence and Successful Debiasing by Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K.H. Ecker, Colleen M. Seifert, Norbert Schwarz, and John Cook
Myth #7 Adolescence Is Inevitably a Time of Psychological Turmoil by Scott O. Lilienfeld
You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You? by Danah Boyd
How to Talk Back to a Statistic by Darrell Hu
Are You Smarter than a Television Pundit? by Nate Silver
Correlation by Charles Wheelan
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner
Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social Construction of Race by Audrey Smedley and Brian D. Smedley
Gender Inclusion, Contextual Values, and Strong Objectivity: Emergent Feminist Methods for Research in the Sciences by Sue V. Rosser
Finding Common Ground through Intellectual Empathy by Maureen Linker
SECTION 2: THE UNITED STATES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT: DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
A Million Bottles a Minute: World’s Plastic Binge ‘As Dangerous As Climate Change’ by Sandra Laville and Matthew Taylor
Environment, Modernity, Inequality by D.N. Pellow
Pipedreams: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Environmental Justice, and Micro-minority Rights by Rob Nixon
The Struggle for Mexican Maze by Elizabeth Fitting
What Is Sustainable Development?: Goals Indicators, Values, and Practice by Robert W. Kates, Thomas M. Parris, Anthony A. Leiserowitz
Environmentalism: Spiritual, Ethical, Political by Michael Smith
Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States by Elke U. Weber and Paul C. Stern
Finally, A Breakthrough Alternative to Growth Economics—The Doughnut by George Monbiot
SECTION 3: ENGAGING IN SOCIAL CHANGE: CRITICAL REFLECTION AND VALIDATED STRATEGIES
What Can We Do? Unraveling the Gender Knot by Allan G. Johnson
Activism or Slacktivism? The Potential and Pitfalls of Social Media in Contemporary Student Activism by Nolan L. Cabrera, Cheryl E. Matias and Roberto Montoya
The White-Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole
Concepts and Implications of Altruism Bias and Pathological Altruism by Barbara A. Oakley
“Prologue” by Ari Berman
Free Marissa Now and Stand with Nan-Hui: A Conversation About Parallel Struggles by Alisa Bierria, Hyejin Shim, Mimi Kim, and Emi Kane
Durably Reducing Transphobia: A Field Experiment on Door-to-Door Canvassing by David Broockman and Joshua Kalla
Changing Behaviors May Be Easier When People See Norms Changing, Stanford Research Finds by Milenko Martinovich
What Works in Prevention: Principles of Eective Prevention Programs by M. Nation, C. Crusto, A. Wandersman, Kl Kumpfer, D. Seybolt, E. Morrissey-Kane, K. Davino
Social Movements and Oppositional Consciousness by Eds. Jane J. Mansbridge and Aldon Morris
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