Read Chapter 21 Introduction to Social Movements & Social Change

See these videos

https://www.pbs.org/show/now-on-pbs/

https://www.hhs.gov/programs/social-services/homelessness/index.html

For this discussion, you’ll create a 11 slide PowerPoint on a social issue in this case Homelessness. You’ll address each of the areas listed below in a power point:

· This will include the following slides:

1. Include your topic Homelessness and your name (Slide 1)

2. Apply the definitions of Functionalism, Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interactionism in the textbook (not any other source) to this (Slide 2)

3. Apply the sociological imagination (Slide 3)

4. What attitudes and behaviors have you observed on this issue? How have they changed? (Slide 4)

5. What role does culture play in these attitudes (i.e. Social norms etc.)? (Slide 5)

6. Globally, what attitudes/behavior do we see toward this issue? In looking globally, do the programs/resources for the homeless seem better or worse that what we have in the US? (Slide 6)

7. What agents of socialization affect/influence this issue? How? (Media, family etc.) (Slide 7)

8. Apply deviance to the topic (Slide 8)

9. Include current examples of related problems with this issue (PTSD, Addiction etc.) (Slide 9)

10. What social movements and/or resources are available in your area to help the homeless? (Slide 10)

11. What type of research method would you use to study this population? (Slide 11)

PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY