How have drug users and drug dealers been portrayed in the media? What messages do these representations send to viewers? To see how representationshave changed over the past 75 years, you may want to spend one evening watching Reefer Madness and another watching Pineapple Express and consider how these films differ in their depictions of marijuana smokers.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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__________ is revealed in the inability of peopleto evacuate before or after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, similar to the victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti

a. Socially patterned vulnerability b. Environmental racism c. Ecojustice d. Synergy

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List and briefly discuss the three major premises of symbolic interaction. Based on the logic of the premises, how would you “solve” the “problem of order”?

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