Assignment task: Answer these two questions below
1) Using your sociological imagination 1) what do you see as being the most pressing social problem(s) presented in the assigned material, 2) how is it adversely affecting people in a systemic way, and 3) what do you think could be done to start to solve the social problem(s)? Need Assignment Help?
Sarah Stillman, "Get Out of Jail, Inc: Does the Alternatives-to-Incarceration Industry Profit from Injustice?" The New Yorker (Note: You can skip the sections starting at "Probation and other institutional alternatives..." and pick up again at "It may be cheaper to move people...")
"The Mothers Most Vulnerable to Incarceration," The New Yorker
2) Using your sociological imagination 1) what do you see as being the most pressing social problem(s) presented in the assigned material, 2) how is it adversely affecting people in a systemic way, and 3) what do you think could be done to start to solve the social problem(s)?
Andrew Martin and Andrew W. Lehren, "A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College," The New York Times
"A Subprime Education," Frontline