Social Issues
A social issue (also called a social problem or a social situation) is an issue that relates to society's perception of a person's personal life. Different cultures have different perceptions and what may be "normal" behavior in one society may be a significant social issue in another society.
Examples:
Examples:
Academic Freedom Adoption Advertising, children's Affirmative Action Ageism AIDS/HIV Air Pollution Airline Issues Alcohol Abuse Animal rights Anti-Muslim Discrimination and Violence Anti-Semitism Arson Arts Funding and Censorship At Risk Students: Higher Education Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder Autism Automobile and Highway Safety Bi-lingualism Birth Control Campaign Finance Reform Cancer Capital Punishment Census Issues Cheating, academic Child Abuse and Molestation Child Labor Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Church-State Separation Civil Liberties Civil Rights Coastal Pollution and Wetlands Protection College Sports Computer Crime, Hacking Consumer Debt and Bankruptcy Corporal Punishment Corporate Crime Crime Criminal Rights Cults and Alternative Religions Defense Spending and Preparedness Deforestation and Logging Disability Rights Divorce and Child Support Domestic Violence Downsizing, corporate Drought and aquifer depletion Drug Abuse Drugs, War on Eating Disorders Energy Dependency Environmental Justice Environmentally-inducred Illness Euthanasia Evolution Education Extinction and Species Loss: Biota Invasion and Habitat Destruction Farm crisis Food and Drug Safety Foster Care Gambling Gangs Gay and Lesbian Rights Genetic Engineering Gentrification Global Warming Gun violence and gun control Hate Crimes Hate Internet and Radio Hate Speech Health Care Reform Heart Disease Homelessness Housing costs Human experimentation Identity Theft Immigration Immigration, Illegal Indoor Pollution Infectious Diseaseand Epidemics Infrastructure Deterioration Intellectual Property Rights Journalistic Ethics Judicial Reform Juvenile Justice Legal Services for the Poor Literacy Mandatory Sentencing Marijuana Mass Transit Media Bias Media Consolidation Media Sex and Violence Medical Malpractice Medicare and Medicaid Reform Medicine, alternative Mental Illness Migrant Workers Militia Movement Minimum and Living Wages Money Laundering N(ot) I(n) M(y) B(ackyard) Y(ard) Issue Native Americans and Government Policy Natural Disasters and Disaster Relief Noise Pollution Nuclear Power and Waste Nuclear Weapons Obesity Occupational Safety and Health Organ and Tissue Transplants Organic Foods Organized Crime Plagiarism Police Abuse and Corruption Poverty and Wealth Prison Reform and Prisoner Rights Privacy Prostitution Public Opinion Polling Racial Profiling Rape Recycling and Conservation Red-lining and loan discrimination Reproductive Rights and Technology Rioting School Standards and Testing School Violence School Vouchers and Privatization Scientific Research Ethics Secrecy, Governmental Sex Education Sexual Harassment Single Parenting Social Security Reform Space Exploration, costs and benefits Special Education Stem Cell Research Stress Student Rights Suicide Superstores v. Main Street Sweatshops Tax Reform Term Limits Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Foreign Terrorism, War on Tobacco and tobacco-related health issues Tort Reform Toxic Waste Traffic Congestion Unemployment Unions Urban Sprawl Veterans' Issues Voluntarism and Volunteering Voting Issues Waste Disposal Water Pollution Weapons of Mass Destruction Welfare and welfare reform Wilderness Protection Women's Rights
These are just examples, so research and find one that interests you.
Project: Students will create a poster portraying their social issue. The main focus
must be a photo they have taken this year. Students may incorporate other elements
such as those from the internet. When the audience views the poster, they must
understand what the social issue is and the view that is being expressed.
Examples and artists who work with social issues.
Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Banksy, Barbara Kruger, Isil Egirkavuk, Keith Haring,
Jenny Holzer
Student Examples
