Euthanasia

Opposing viewpoints

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

Euthanasia should be legal / Euthanasia should not be legal / Euthanasia should be illegal but tacitly permitted / Palliative care is a better option for the terminally ill than euthanasia / Euthanasia : hope you never need it, but be glad the option is there / There is a right to die / Liberals should be wary of assisted suicide / Euthanasia is merciful and reasonable / Euthanasia is barbarous and immoral / Euthanasia respects individual autonomy and requires deliberation / Euthanasia devalues human life and limits individual freedom / Legalizing euthanasia can become a slippery slope / There is no evidence that legalizing euthanasia will lead to a slippery slope / Legalizing euthanasia leads to a stronger and more compassionate society / Legalizing euthanasia has a negative impact on society / Child euthanasia should be allowed / Euthanasia for children is wrong : as Belgium proposes new law / Euthanasia should be allowed for emotional suffering / Euthanasia should not be allowed for emotional suffering / Massachusetts vote may change how the nation dies / Physicians should not play a role in assisted suicide / Canada has death panels / Death panels are inevitable as long as health care is considered a commodity / The Affordable Care Act death panels are a myth / ObamaCare is to euthanasia what Roe v. Wade was to abortion / The Affordable Care Act could bring attention to the Death with Dignity movement

The sociology book

Big ideas simply explained

Big ideas simply explained.

A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation / Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies / Science can be used to build a better world / The Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race / The fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable / Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft / Society, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions / The iron cage of rationality / Many personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues / Pay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events / Where there is power there is resistance / Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original / Social inequalities. I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder / The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line / The poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life / There ain't no black in the Union Jack / A sense of one's place / The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined / The ghetto is where the black people live / The tools of freedom become the sources of indignity / Men's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity / White women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy / The concept of "patriarch" is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality / Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type / The freedom to remake our cities and ourselves / There must be eyes on the street / Only communication can communicate / Society should articulate what is good / McDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society / The bonds of our communities have withered / Disneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences / Living in a loft is like living in a showcase / Abandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity / The modern world-system / Global issues, local perspective / Climate change is a back-of-the-mind issue / No social justice without global cognitive justice / The unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind / We are living in a world that is beyond controllability / It sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move / Nations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw / Global cities are strategic sites for new types of operations / Different societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently / Processes of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities / The "I" and the "me" / The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned / The civilizing process is constantly moving "forward" / Mass culture reinforces political repression / The danger of the future is that men may become robots / Culture is ordinary / Stigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning / Modern identities are being decentered / All communities are imagined / Throughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage / Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure / The Puritan wanted to work in a calling-- we are forced to do so / Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination / The more sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has / Automation increases the worker's control over his work process / The Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism / In processing people, the product is a state of mind / Spontaneous consent combines with coercion / Things make us just as much as we make things / Feminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities / Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature / The iron law of oligarchy / Healthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die / Some commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation / Total institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self / Government is the right disposition of things / Religion has lost its plausibility and social significance / Our identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified / Economic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis / Schooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor / Societies are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic / The time of the tribes / How working-class kids get working-class jobs / Differences between the sexes are cultural creations / Families are factories that produce human personalities / Western man has become a confessing animal / Heterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution / Western family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved / The marriage contract is a work contract / Housework is directly opposed to self-actualization / When love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat / Sexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body / Queer theory questions the very grounds of identity

Teen dating

Opposing viewpoints series

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

Teen dating violence is a serious problem / The problem of teen dating violence is exaggerated / Many teens lack the knowledge needed to recognize potential abusers / Some teens believe teen dating violence is normal / Teen dating violence education programs should be mandatory / School teen dating violence programs are unnecessary and wasteful

Early teen sex is common and poses serious risks / Most teens are not engaging in risky sexual behavior / Dating teens should not have sex / New teen dating practices reduce the likelihood of sex / Teens who have sex risk physical and emotional harm / Comprehensive sex education will reduce the risks of teen sex / Virginity pledges prevent some teens from having sex / Consensual sex among teens should not be criminalized

Sexting can be a serious problem for dating teens / The problem of teen sexting is less common than first reported / Abusive teen dating partners use technology as tools of abuse / Media have both a positive and negative impact on teen sexual relationships / Reality television shows reveal the risks of teen pregnancy / Reality television shows glamorize teen pregnancy / Media literacy programs help teens resist negative media images of teen relationships / Parents must mediate negative images of teen dating in the media