The document discusses several topics at the intersection of social issues in America including socioeconomic class, racism, gender, environmentalism, affirmative action, and social media. It questions whether factors like class, wealth, gender, and race determine outcomes in areas like poverty, domestic violence, pollution, and career attainment or if individual effort and social progress have allowed more people to overcome obstacles. The document suggests some social problems may have become more subtle and asks if continued social and technological changes could further impact privacy, perspectives, and human behavior.

1. Does socioeconomic class determine racism? Are hate crimes social class specific?

2. Why are women more likely to be poor than men? Why are female headed households and families more likely to be poor?

3. Which social class is the most likely to pollute? Is the mass pollution of our natural world harming our social environment?

4. Does affirmative action integrate or segregate minorities in the workplace? Are other regions of the world inherently objective and do not need forced integration?

5. In the land of equal opportunity, what race or class actually matters? Has this homogeneous collection of our nation’s leaders had a quality social perspective of our diverse nation?

6. When will society eschew the need for social networking? Could sites such as MySpace and Facebook potentially link and harmonize society?

7. Is the American Dream still attainable? Do social or financial circumstances dictate an American’s destiny?

8. Does wealth factor into domestic violence? Has society influenced the subtlety of household violence?

9. Rather than disappearing after the Civil Rights movement, has racism taken on a more subtle form? Is it possible to overcome the stacked odds and advance?

10. As media advances, will the stern dimension of privacy humans possess diminish? Does the media dictate what we see, feel, and perhaps do?