Problem 1: How often do you vote? If you do not vote, what accounts for your apathy? Are you too busy to register? Are community issues uninteresting to you? Do you think voter apathy is a serious social problem? What might be done to increase voter participation in your age group and community?
Problem 2: Would you vote for a female president of the US? Why or why not?
Problem 3: How has your home community (your city, town, or neighborhood) changed over the years you have lived there? Have there been significant changes in the community's economic base of its racial and ethnic profile? Have the community's social problems intensified or lessened? Is unemployment currently a major problem? What are the community's future prospects?
Problem 4: What are some of the current problems and issues facing Americans who live in central cities, suburbs, and rural areas?
Problem 5: Choose one social movement that has occurred within yours or your parent's life time and discuss it.
Problem 6: You have just gone out to eat with 3 close friends. As one is looking over the restaurant's menu, they exclaim, "Just look at all this veggie stuff...whatever happened to plain old beef?" Since you just read about social movements, you decided to argue that vegetarianism is a social movement like many others. What specific things about social movements would you link with vegetarianism? What specific characteristics of vegetarianism would you include to support your contention that it can be thought of as a social movement?
Problem 7: What did you like best about this class? What was the most important piece of knowledge you learned?