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1. Chapter 1: What Is a Social Problem?
   1. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
      1. Learning Objectives
      2. Chapter Overview
      3. Focusing Questions
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   2. Defining a Social Problem
      1. Beyond Individual Experience
      2. A Conflict in Values
      3. Inequality
      4. A Social Construction with Real Consequences
      5. Unpacking Oppression, Advocating for Social Justice: The Social Construction of Rape
      6. Interdependent Solutions of Individual Agency and Collective Action
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   3. Constructing a Social Problem
      1. The Social Problems Process
         1. Step One: Claimsmaking
         2. Step Two: Media Coverage
         3. Step Three: Public Reaction
         4. Step Four: Policy Making
         5. Step Five: Social Problems Work
         6. Step Six: Policy Outcomes
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   4. Social Problems and Social Justice
      1. Activist Scholars: Jane Addams and Angela Davis
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   5. Chapter Summary
      1. Essential Ideas
      2. Key Terms Review
      3. Key Terms List
      4. Discuss and Do
      5. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Summary
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   6. References
2. Chapter 2: Who Are We?: Social Problems in a Diverse World
   1. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
      1. Learning Objectives
      2. Chapter Overview
      3. Focusing Questions
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   2. Social Identity and Social Location
      1. Social Identity
      2. Dimensions of Diversity
         1. Race
         2. Ethnicity
         3. Gender
         4. Age
         5. Class
         6. Sexual Orientation
         7. Ability/Disability
      3. Social Location and the Wheel of Power and Privilege
         1. The Wheel of Power and Privilege Describes Structural Oppression and Structural Privilege
         2. The Wheel of Power and Privilege Measures Harm not Worth
         3. The Wheel of Power and Privilege Demonstrates Intersectionality
         4. Unpacking Oppression, Intersecting Justice: Acting Intersectionally
      4. Applying Social Identity and Social Location to One Life
         1. My Social Identity
         2. My Social Location
         3. My Power, Privilege, and Intersectionality
         4. My Identity and Agency
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   3. Creating Community by Honoring Diversity
      1. Living Diversity Well
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   4. Chapter Summary
      1. Essential Ideas
      2. Key Terms Review
      3. Key Terms List
      4. Discuss and Do
      5. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Summary
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   5. References
3. Chapter 3: What Is Sociology? Theory in Social Science
   1. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
      1. Learning Objectives
      2. Chapter Overview
      3. Focusing Questions
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   2. How Do You Know?: Social Theory
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   3. Classical Sociological Theory
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   4. Moving to Modern
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   5. Modern and Emerging Sociological Theories
      1. Feminism and Intersectionality
      2. Critical Race Theory
      3. Queer Theory
      4. Theories of Interdependence
      5. Unpacking Oppression, Locating Justice
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   6. Chapter Summary
      1. Essential Ideas
      2. Key Terms Review
      3. Key Terms List
      4. Discuss and Do
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   7. References
4. Chapter 4: How Do We Find Out?: Research Methods for Social Problems
   1. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
      1. Learning Objectives
      2. Chapter Overview
      3. Focusing Questions
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   2. Scientific Frameworks
      1. The Scientific Method
         1. Step 1: Identify a Social Issue or Find a Research Topic and Ask a Question
         2. Step 2: Review Existing Literature and Source
         3. Step 3: Formulate a Hypothesis
         4. Step 4: Select a Research Method and Design a Study
         5. Step 5: Collect Data
         6. Step 6: Analyze the Data
         7. Step 7: Report Findings
      2. Interpretive Framework
      3. Indigenous Frameworks
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   3. Research Methods
      1. Surveys
      2. Experiments
      3. Secondary Data Analysis
      4. Participant Observation
      5. In-depth interviews
      6. International Research
      7. Unpacking Oppression, Measuring Justice
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   4. Research Methods and Taking Action
      1. Humanitarian Efforts
      2. Community-Based Action Research
      3. Participatory Action Research
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   5. Chapter Summary
      1. Essential Ideas
      2. Key Terms Review
      3. Key Terms List
      4. Discuss and Do
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   6. References
5. Chapter 5: Who Learns? Pods, Masks, and “You’re on Mute”
   1. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
      1. Learning Objectives
      2. Chapter Overview
      3. Focusing Questions
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   2. Education as a Social Problem
      1. d/Deaf and Black: Intersectional Justice
      2. Unpacking Oppression, Seeing Justice: What’s With All the -isms?
      3. Neurodiversity
      4. Unpacking Oppression and Enabling Justice
      5. Violence and Oppression: Indian Residential Schools
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   3. Models of Education: Applying the Social Problems Process
      1. Legal Segregation
      2. Legal Integration
      3. De-facto Segregation
      4. Inclusion
      5. Educational Debt not Achievement Gap
      6. Equity
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   4. Education, Poverty, and Wealth
      1. Individual Improvement versus Class Improvement
      2. Correlation and Causation
      3. Models of Education, Wealth, and Poverty
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   5. Education for Transformation is Social Justice
      1. Education For Liberation
      2. Crossing the Digital Divide During COVID-19
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   6. Chapter Summary
      1. Essential Ideas
      2. Key Terms Review
      3. Key Terms List
      4. Discuss and Do
      5. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Summary
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   7. References
6. Chapter 6: Who Has a Home?: Houselessness and Housing Insecurity
   1. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
      1. Learning Objectives
      2. Chapter Overview
      3. Focusing Questions
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   2. Housing Insecurity and Houselessness as a Social Problem
      1. Defining houselessness
      2. Who is Unhoused?
      3. Who is Housing Insecure?
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   3. Houselessness, Housing Insecurity, and Social Location
      1. What is Social Stratification?
      2. Unpacking Oppression, Equalizing Justice: Social Class
      3. Social Class and Housing
      4. Race and Ethnicity
      5. Gender and Houselessness
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   4. Personal Problems — “Sin” or “Sickness”
      1. Poverty, “Degeneracy” and Migrants
      2. Hobos and Tramps
      3. Narratives of houselessness
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   5. Structural Issues of Houselessness
      1. Structural Causes of Indigenous Houselessness
      2. Creating Under-resourced Communities: Racism, Segregation, Redlining
      3. Climate-related displacement
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   6. Housing Stability is Social Justice
      1. Supporting Students
      2. Updating the Fair Housing Act
      3. Addressing Houselessness: Housing First
      4. Community Efforts
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   7. Chapter Summary
      1. Essential Ideas
      2. Key Terms Review
      3. Key Terms List
      4. Discuss and Do
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   8. References
7. Chapter 7: Who Belongs?: The Social Problem of Family
   1. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
      1. Learning Objectives
      2. Chapter Overview
      3. Focusing Questions
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   2. The Social Problem of Belonging: Who is Family?
      1. A social problem goes beyond the experience of an individual
      2. A social problem results from a conflict in values
      3. A social problem arises when groups of people experience inequality
      4. A social problem is socially constructed but real in its consequences
      5. A social problem must be addressed interdependently, using both individual agency and collective action
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   3. Inequality in Belonging
      1. Early Roots: Slavery, Bodily Autonomy, Citizenship and Class
      2. The Intersectionality of Belonging: Ethnicity, Origin, and Citizenship
         1. Ethnicity
         2. Unpacking Oppression, Naming Justice: Why is Latinx a Word?
         3. Citizenship and Ethnicity
            1. Another immigrant story: My Mom
            2. DACA, Dreamers, and Immigration
      3. Queer Families
         1. Unpacking Oppression and Queering Justice: What Do I Mean When I Say Queer?
         2. Inequality in Queer Families
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   4. Explaining the Social Problem of Belonging
      1. Functionalist
      2. Conflict Theory
      3. Symbolic Interactionism
      4. Intersectional Theories of Belonging: Feminism, Critical Race Theory, and Queer Theory
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   5. Belonging is Social Justice
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   6. Chapter Summary
      1. Essential Ideas
      2. Key Terms Review
      3. Key Terms List
      4. Discuss and Do
      5. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Summary
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   7. References
8. Chapter 8: Who Gets Environmental Justice? The Social Problem of Climate Chan
9. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
   1. Learning Objectives
   2. Chapter Overview
   3. Focusing Questions
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10. Climate Change as a Social Problem
    1. Extreme Weather Events
    2. Cultural Loss
    3. Climate Change and Poverty: “Those who contribute the least suffer the most”
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11. Environmental Inequality and Culture
    1. Enculturation and Cultural Universals
    2. The Culture Wheel
       1. Unpacking Oppression, Living Justice: Colonialism
    3. Worldview Conflict – Indigenous and Western Perspectives
    4. Colonialism, Capitalism, and Climate Change
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12. Making Sense of the Climate Crisis
    1. What is Environmental Racism, Environmental Justice, and Critical Environmental Justice?
    2. What is Ecofeminism?
    3. What is Youth Climate Activism?
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13. Environmental Justice Is Social Justice
    1. Environmental Justice in Oregon, Then and Now
       1. The Bottle Bill
       2. The Latina Fire Survivors in Southern Oregon
    2. Indigenous Resistance
    3. Paris Climate Agreements
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14. Chapter Summary
    1. Essential Ideas
    2. Key Terms Review
    3. Key Terms List
    4. Discuss and Do
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15. References

1. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
   1. Learning Objectives
   2. Chapter Overview
   3. Focusing Questions
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2. Applying the Social Problems Process to #BlackLivesMatter
   1. Claimsmaking and Media Coverage
   2. Claim: Lynching and Racist Policing
   3. Claim: Under-resourced Communities
   4. Public Reaction
   5. Policy Making, Social Problems Work, and Policy Outcomes
   6. Unpacking Oppression: Anti-Racist Social Justice
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3. The Sociology of Social Movements
   1. Levels of Social Movements
   2. Types of Social Movements
   3. Stages of Social Movements
   4. New Social Movement Theory
   5. Resource Mobilization Theory
   6. Indigenous Perspective Theory
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4. Social Movements, Social Media, and Social Justice
   1. Emergence
   2. Coalescence
   3. Institutionalization
   4. Decline
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5. Chapter Summary
   1. Essential Ideas
   2. Key Terms Review
   3. Key Terms List
   4. Discuss and Do
   5. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Summary
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6. References

1. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
   1. Learning Objectives
   2. Chapter Overview
   3. Focusing Questions
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2. Health as a Social Problem
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3. Epidemiology in the US: Health Disparities by Social Location
   1. Unpacking Oppression, Healing Justice: Social Determinants of Health and ACES
   2. Health Inequalities by Race and Ethnicity
   3. Health Inequalities by Socioeconomic Status
   4. Health Inequalities by Biological Sex
   5. Health Inequalities by Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
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4. Sociological Theories of Health
   1. The Cultural Meaning of Illness
   2. Sick Role and Functionalist Perspective
   3. Social Disparities and the Conflict Perspective
   4. Medicalization and the Symbolic Perspective
   5. Intersectional Theories of Health
      1. Racism and Weathering
      2. The Hispanic Paradox
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5. Health Equity is Social Justice
   1. Changing US Healthcare Policy
   2. Changing Healthcare Policy Around the World
   3. Reproductive Justice is Social Justice
   4. Interdependent Health Care Solutions to COVID-19
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6. Chapter Summary
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   2. Key Terms Review
   3. Key Terms List
   4. Discuss and Do
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7. References

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   1. Learning Objectives
   2. Chapter Overview
   3. Focusing Questions
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2. The Social Problem of Drug Use and Misuse
   1. Drug Use
   2. Problematic Drug Use
   3. Dependence
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3. Harmful Drug Use: Exploring Unequal Outcomes
   1. The War On Drugs – Criminalizing Drug Use
   2. Unpacking Oppression, Quantifying Justice
   3. The Opioid Crisis: Medical Intervention, not Crime
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4. Five Models of Addiction
   1. Moral View
   2. Disease Model
   3. Public Health Perspective
   4. Sociological Model
   5. Intersectional Model: Colonization and Drug Use
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5. Recovery is Social Justice
   1. Harm-Reduction Movement
   2. Decriminalize Low-Level Drug Offenses
      1. Legalization of Cannabis
      2. Decriminalizing Personal Possession of Illegal Drugs in Oregon
   3. Community Collaboration for Drug Treatment
      1. The Intersectionality of Drug Treatment
      2. Increasing Drug Treatment Options in Local Communities
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6. Chapter Summary
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   2. Key Terms Review
   3. Key Terms List
   4. Discuss and Do
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7. References

1. Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
   1. Learning Objectives
   2. Chapter Overview
      1. Kate’s Story
   3. Focusing Questions
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2. The Basics: Mental Health and Mental Illness as a Social Problem
   1. What Do We Mean, Really?
   2. Why Is Mental Health and Mental Illness a Social Problem?
      1. Mental health and mental illness go beyond individual experience
      2. Unpacking Oppression, Mixing Justice: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Identity
      3. Social Location and Mental Illness Prevalence
   3. Conflict in values
   4. Socially constructed but real in consequences
   5. Unequal outcomes
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3. Social Location and Mental Health
   1. Race and Ethnicity
   2. Class Issues in Mental Health Treatment
   3. Gender
   4. Unpacking Oppression, Embodying Justice: Patriarchy
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4. Mental Health: Models and Treatments
   1. Medical and Psychological Models of Mental Health and Mental Illness
   2. Biological model
   3. Medical model
   4. Psychological model
   5. Sociological Approaches to Mental Illness
      1. Functionalist
      2. Conflict
      3. Symbolic Interactionist
      4. Intersectional
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5. Mental Health Is Social Justice
   1. CAHOOTS
   2. Loveland Foundation
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6. Chapter Summary
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   2. Key Terms Review
   3. Key Terms List
   4. Discuss and Do
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7. References

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2. Death and Dying as a Social Problem
   1. Beyond the Experience of the Individual
   2. Conflict in Values: Right To Die
   3. Inequality in Life Expectancy
   4. The Social Construction of Death
      1. Clinical Death
      2. Legal Death
      3. Social Death
   5. Interdependent Solutions
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3. Inequality in End of Life and Death
   1. Unpacking Oppression, Living Justice
   2. Cultural Differences in Death and Dying
      1. Unpacking Oppression, Believing Justice
      2. Cultural Differences – Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead
         1. Linda González Tells Her Story
      3. Cultural Differences – Indigenous
      4. Cultural Differences – Hindu
      5. Cultural Differences – RIP T-Shirts and Social Justice
   3. Inequality at End of Life – Rural Challenges
      1. End-of-Life Care Options: Rural Challenges
         1. Palliative Care
         2. Nursing Care and Home Health Care
         3. Hospice
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4. Studying Death and Dying
   1. The Philosophical Approach
   2. Biological and Medical Approaches
   3. Anthropological Approach
   4. Psychological Approach
   5. Sociological Approach
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5. Dying Well is Social Justice
   1. POLST and Advance Directives
   2. Green Burial
   3. Last Words Project: Art as Activism
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6. Chapter Summary
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   2. Key Terms Review
   3. Key Terms List
   4. Discuss and Do
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   1. Learning Objectives
   2. Chapter Overview
      1. We are #OtisStrong
      2. A Case Study Approach to Interrelated Social Problems
   3. Focusing Questions
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2. Who Lives in Otis? Setting the Stage of Social Problems
   1. Betty
   2. Carol
   3. Fernando
   4. Tommy & Wendy
   5. Unpacking Oppression, Recovering Justice
      1. Age and Gender
      2. Race and Ethnicity
      3. Social Class
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3. The Interconnected Social Problems of Wildfire Recovery
   1. Harmful Drug Use, Mental Health, and Houselessness in the Country
      1. Carol’s Story Continues
      2. Mental Health in a Rural Community
      3. Houselessness and Disaster Recovery: Tommy, Wendy, and Carol
   2. Racism and Solidarity
      1. Fernando’s Story Continues
      2. Solidarity in Action
   3. Climate Change In Otis
      1. Betty’s Story Continues
      2. Responding to Climate Change and Disaster
   4. COVID-19 and Christmas
      1. Celebrating Christmas: A Radical Act of Social Justice
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4. The Sociology of Disaster Recovery
   1. The Disaster Management Cycle
   2. Disaster Mental Health
   3. The Social Inequality of Disaster and Resilience Gentrification
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5. Community Recovery is Social Justice
   1. Addressing Community Building: Echo Mountain Fire Relief
   2. Addressing Basic Needs: Salmon River Grange, Landscaping with Love, and the Cascade Relief Team
   3. Addressing Housing: County and State Action
   4. Addressing Racism: Latino Outreach and Conexión Fénix
   5. Litigating Justice: Holding Power Companies Accountable
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6. Chapter Summary
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   2. Key Term Review
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   4. Discuss and Do
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7. References

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