“Sociological Imagination” and the Policing of Mental Health
On November 3, 2018, Laudemer Arboleda, a mentally ill man, was killed by police officer Andrew Hall in Danville, a wealthy San Francisco suburb.
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On November 3, 2018, Laudemer Arboleda, a mentally ill man, was killed by police officer Andrew Hall in Danville, a wealthy San Francisco suburb.
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In the United States, the month of January 2023 set a record for having the most mass shootings since 2014
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The economy, gun policy, violent crime, and climate change are a few of the things Gen Z wants to change.
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In the January 2018 Strada-Gallup Why Higher Ed report, 58% of respondents indicated that employment/career motivations are the main reasons for pursuing higher education.
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There are indications that something is seriously wrong with the U.S. education system. This may be especially so with our system of higher education.
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Weeks into the Covid-19 Pandemic, we began hearing the phrase “the new normal” from politicians, mainstream and social media outlets, and many of our friends and family.
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In February 2022, The New York Times reported on a scheme concocted by top executives at IBM to replace older employees with millennials.
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The number of divorces per 1,000 people declined from a peak of 5.3 in 1979 to 2.3 in 2020.
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The military is an invisible institution in undergraduate sociology.
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Are second chances available to all who seek them, as our “everybody deserves a second chance” cultural rhetoric implies?
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On February 24, 2022, the Russian army invaded Ukraine, starting a brutal war that sent shock waves around the world.
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U.S. inflation has risen higher in the past year than it has in any year since 1981 and women are generally bearing the greatest burdens of these price hikes.
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Learn about the discourse that stigmatizes LGBTQ communities and hampers efforts to prevent, test, and treat HIV.
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Taking a look at sexual assault as it relates to culture today.
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Research shows that for individuals already experiencing depression or anxiety, social media can exacerbate those symptoms, while healthy people are less likely to be influenced.
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Many factors are contributing to the higher unemployment rates across the globe compared to pre-COVID times.
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Despite efforts to vaccinate as many people as possible, COVID-19 infection rates are still increasing across the globe.
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Guns, climate change, racial justice, and the response to COVID-19 all alienated younger voters from the Trump administration and lead to the election of Joe Biden.
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Nursing home residents and employees were one of the most affected demographics of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why were these facilities impacted and what has changed?
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