RI 2024 Y5 GP Infopack Social Issues.pdf

RI GP Y5 2024 | Social Issues FOR INTERNAL CIRCULATION ONLY 1 of 85 RAFFLES INSTITUTION YEAR 5 GENERAL PAPER - STUDENTS’ INFORMATION PACKAGE 2024 SOCIAL ISSUES EUs Pages • Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions • Past Year Examination Questions 2 3-8 Section A: Gender Issues 1 To hope or doubt: The state of women’s progress in the world 2-6 9-12 2 How the fight for gender equality is changing 1-4, 6 13-14 3 The unequal, unnoticed life of a female worker 1-4, 6 15-18 4 Do transgender athletes have an unfair advantage? 1-4 19-22 5 Only half of women in developing world in charge of their own bodies 1-4 23-24 Section B: Issues to do with Family, Marriage & Parenting 6 The nuclear family was a mistake 3 & 6 25-28 7 The nuclear family is no mistake 3 & 6 29-31 8 Government does not encourage single parenthood as a lifestyle choice 1 -3, 5-6 32-34 9 Paternity leave has long-lasting benefits. So why don’t more American men take it? 3 & 6 35-37 10 Family members should not have to bear burden of looking after dementia patients alone 1-4 & 6 38-40 Section C: Issues to do with Social Mobility & Inequality 11 Rethink governance and institutions to tackle poverty and inequality 2, 5 & 6 41-45 12 Inequality and social good: A new culture of shared wellbeing requires reforming a system that promotes individualism 3-6 46-51 13 Soul searching required to solve Singapore’s foreign workers problem 2, 3, 5 & 6 51-56 14 America’s Cities Are Staggeringly Unequal 2 & 3 56-59 15 Education reforms, and more, needed to fix inequality 2-4 59-63 16 ”Good enough”: The risks and responsibilities of choosing a primary school 3-6 63-68 Section D: Inter-Generational Issues & Ageing 17 Many Millennials are worse off than their parents – a first in American history 2, 4-6 68-71 18 Pandemials – Youth in an Age of Lost Opportunity 2-4 & 6 71-75 19 What is ‘lying flat’, and why are Chinese officials standing up to it? 2, 5 & 6 76-79 20 South Korea is No Country for Young People 1-4 & 6 80-82 21 The faces and insecurities of Singapore’s elderly working poor 1-3, 5-6 83-85

RI GP Y5 2024 | Social Issues FOR INTERNAL CIRCULATION ONLY 2 of 85 SOCIAL ISSUES Enduring Understanding(s): What will students understand as a result of this unit? 1. What is defined as a social problem differs by context (e.g. time, place, political and legal systems). 2. Social problems are sociocultural, political and economic phenomena that prevent a significant number of societal participants from developing and using their full potential. 3. Social and political structures and arrangements determine the underlying features of the social world and play a role in perpetuating or mitigating social problems. 4. The politico-economic system of a society, from which social problems emanate, is a result of historical events and conscio