Need to write a paper on some contemporary social issue. What

>>8924175
palliative care

/sci/ - Current Events

>>8924175
Over-compartmentalization of the political class and under-representation of properly qualified people in specific positions (e.g. actual doctors as ministers of health or actual agronomists as ministers of agriculture).

>>8924175
The socioeconomic situation of black Americans and how they are almost guaranteed to lead a life of crime

mental illness is becoming increasingly prevalent in america and is both under-diagnosed, and misdiagnosed

mental illness faces the difficulty of providing rigorous diagnoses and treatments, plus finding a transferable+treatable biological basis for these mental illnesses has shown to be nearly impossible

"Mental illnesses are more common than cancer, diabetes, or heart disease. Over 26 percent of all Americans over the age of 18 meet the criteria for having a mental illness. Serious mental disorders affect an estimated 6 percent of the adult population, or approximately 1 in 17 people. A little more than half receive treatment"
National Institute of Mental Health, 2011

Neo-Marxism in academia brainwashing students to become activists in parts of the West reminiscent of Mao Zedong's communist China.

post modernism

it's fucking aids

>>8924175

Air pollution in China

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>>8924475
>in academia
*in Women's Studies/LGBTTQQ2SAA+log(QWERTY) Studies/Sociology/African American Studies/Atheist Studies/Communications/Gender Studies/Intersectional departments

>>8924211
>The socioeconomic situation of black Americans and how they are almost guaranteed to lead a life of crime

Poor whites that live in the same exact communities and go to the same schools have a vastly lower crime rates and far better English skills. The problem isn't socioeconomic, but cultural. Just look at rap music and see what kind of life blacks aspire for.

>>8924201
>over-compartmentalization
lmaoo, you can't be serious, everyone today is either left or right, it's too binary

>>8924511
Culture == Genes

>>8924475
Communists fighting self-proclaimed Nazis on the street seems terribly reminiscent of Weimar Germany to me. There are some pretty good historical angles to the sociopolitical situations of today's ideological partisanship.

>>8924175
http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

>>8924511
Socioeconomic encompasses culture you brainlet

>>8924511
>Poor whites that live in the same exact communities
Doesn't happen desu

OP write about the problems science has communicating news to the public, and the problems with how media will sensationalize everything, and ultimately work against science.

>>8924175
the posting of science and math related content on imageboards

>>8924593
It's just culture.

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>>8924201
>>8924475

These two tie into one another pretty well, and they are THE issue of today. However, since it's for an assignment, I'd advise against taking any sides.

>>8924222
Even this seems a bit tendentious since it dovetails into a health care issue.

>>8924175
>non-meme social issues
Or just go the other way and cover the Internet itself and how it's coming to affect the real world. Wendy's stock went up by 15% in the past month due to relentless meming. There are people out there who get all of their news from Facebook memes whose votes matter as much as yours do. Net-savvy people are going to be coming into office in the next decade or so, and the Wired culture is only just ramping up.

>>8924201
>under-representation of properly qualified people in specific positions
That is an anti-social justice issue.

>>8924175
How will capitalism change as non-renewable resources become less plentiful in the future?

>>8924175
gerrymandering

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>>8924175
The anthropocene, Sociological-ecological mismatches, and the evolutionary trap h. Sapiens is currently in. From the socio-ecological systems perspective.
Look at what international finance does to emergent economies and traditional socio-ecological systems for example.
Fisheries, logging, mineral exploitation, industry, specifically industrial agriculture.
Picture related
There is much more.
I believe rapidly approaching global extinction counts as a social issue.
You need to know about the enslavement principle and how that works with earth systems, feedback loops, ecological overshoot, and adaptive capacity to fully explain the gravity of the situation.
If you figure it out and can communicate it right you will freak out the squares by showing them how uncertain their future really is. Listen to Noam Chomsky and learn about manufacturing consent, and explain how the "public relations" industry and state-capitalist systems work with this as an example. That will get people relied up enough to start voicing their dissent. Something that desperately needs to happen.
We're all devo.

>>8924475
Lmao. The Marxist are obfuscated. The liberal business elite dominate acedemia and the right wing bussiness elite dominate the proles. Most students aren't taught what socialism and capitalism even mean. Also they think anarchism is synonymous with chaos. Hell I talk to people who think anarchism is capitalist. There is anarcho capitalism but that is very far from anarchism. There is market anarchism but that is very far from capitalism.
Capitalism doesn't mean markets and the division of labour. It means to profit off of work you did not do and means of production you do not interact with.
So sad to see people so disinformed.
fyi, I'm not a Marxist

>>8926585
Preaching to the choir here. There are people who equate socialism with communism even though it merely arose with inspiration from it, and has since then been a trendy word for many different things.

I wonder whether most conservatives even know there's such a thing as market socialism.

>>8924175
>What are some non-meme social issues?
All "social issues" are social constructs and therefore aspects of fictional actual pre-puppeteers.

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Transracialism.

Google "a defence of transracialism" and prepare to be amazed with how the academic community of gender studies is going to war with philosophers.