Examples of Social Security Act in the following topics:
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- OASDI was established under the original Social Security Act, passed in 1935.
- Prior to 1935 and the passage of the Social Security Act, social security did not exist in the United States.
- The Social Security Act was drafted during President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration as part of his response to the damage caused by the crash .
- President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, at approximately 3:30 pm EST on August 14, 1935.
- This is a brief excerpt of President Roosevelt's speech during the signing of the Social Security Act of 1935
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- The different institutions can further be classified as medical (skilled) care and non-medical (social) care.
- In 1965, Congress created Medicare under the Social Security Act in order to provide health insurance to U.S. citizens over the age of 65, regardless of their income and medical history.
- Aside from premiums paid by Medicare enrollees along with the fund source itself, Medicare is financed by revenue levied on employers and workers through the Federal Insurance Contributions Act and the Self-Employment Contributions Act.
- The blue line represents social security expenditure in 2010 dollars, while the red line indicates the percentage of the population aged 65 and over who are at or below the poverty line.
- As the graph shows, the amount of social security expenditure is correlated with a drop in the number of elderly people at or below the poverty line.
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- In addition to Social Security, the other primary social support for the American elderly is Medicare.
- Social Security could soon be in crisis if current trends to not change.
- Medicare faces even more dire financial problems than Social Security.
- The respective conditions of Social Security and Medicare contributed significantly to the discussion surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed by President Barack Obama in 2010.
- Supreme Court and the Act could be overturned.
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- It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life.
- Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on August 6.
- The 1965 Act suspended poll taxes, literacy tests, and other subjective voter tests.
- The act had an immediate and positive impact for African Americans.
- Analyze a real-life example, such as the Voting Rights Act, in terms of social change
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- Primary and secondary socialization are two forms of socialization that are particularly important for children.
- It is where children and adults learn how to act in a way that is appropriate for the situations they are in .
- Schools require very different behavior from the home, and children must act according to new rules.
- New teachers have to act in a way that is different from pupils and learn the new rules from people around them.
- Justify the importance of socialization for children, in terms of both primary and secondary socialization
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- Prior to the introduction of Social Security in the U.S. and other programs for the needy, the elderly were the poorest age group in the U.S.
- With the introduction of Social Security, the poverty rates of the elderly in the U.S. dropped dramatically, as illustrated in the figure below.
- The chart below illustrates the problems with Social Security payments for retirees in the U.S.
- Currently, more money is received from Social Security taxes than is distributed to retirees.However, that will change if Social Security is not modified by 2017.
- While the Social Security program in the U.S. is in trouble, the situation of Social Security is not as dire as is that of Medicare, which is a healthcare program for the elderly.
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- Social constructionism is a school of thought introduced into sociology by Peter L.
- Berger and Thomas Luckmann with their 1966 book The Social Construction of Reality.
- Socially constructed reality is seen as an on-going dynamic process; reality is re-produced by people acting on their interpretations of what they perceive to be the world external to them.
- Berger and Luckmann argue that social construction describes both subjective and objective reality - that is that no reality exists outside what is produced and reproduced in social interactions.
- A clear example of social constructionist thought is, following Sigmund Freud and Émile Durkheim, religion.
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- For Mead, the self arises out of the social act of communication, which is the basis for socialization.
- For Mead, mind arises out of the social act of communication.
- Mead's concept of the social act is relevant, not only to his theory of mind, but also to all facets of his social philosophy.
- His theory of "mind, self, and society" is, in effect, a philosophy of the act from the standpoint of a social process involving the interaction of many individuals, just as his theory of knowledge and value is a philosophy of the act from the standpoint of the experiencing individual in interaction with an environment.
- Discuss Mead's theory of social psychology in terms of two concepts - pragmatism and social behaviorism
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- Economic downturns are one of many social factors that cause homelessness.
- Over half of children who "age out" of social systems such as foster care find themselves homeless.
- Social stigma also contributes to homelessness.
- The McKinney-Vento Act attempts to overcome these barriers by mandating equal opportunity for a free public education for homeless students.
- People who are homeless are often forced to sleep under makeshift shelters that offer little protection from the elements and no security.
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- Social role theory proposes that social structure is the underlying force behind gender differences, and that the division of labor between two sexes within a society motivates the differences in their respective behavior.
- Socialization theory tells us that primary socialization - the process that occurs when a child learns the attitudes, values and actions expected of individuals within a particular culture - is the most important phase of social development, and lays the groundwork for all future socialization.
- Socialization can be intentional or unintentional; the family may not be conscious of the messages it transmits, but these messages nonetheless contribute to the child's socialization.
- For example, a child who grows up in a two-parent household with a mother who acts as a homemaker and a father who acts as the breadwinner may internalize these gender roles, regardless of whether or not the family is directly teaching them.
- Justify how the family acts as the most important agent of gender socialization for children and adolescents