A SOC 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Constructionism, Informed Consent, Symbolic Interactionism
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These are powerful tools for understanding social problems. Much like the human body is prone to disease and decay, so is the individual and society. Social problem as a violation of moral order. Any changes may produce disequilibrium, as people no longer know how to preform roles, and may turn to crime or develop mental illness. Social problems as social pathology: saw social problems as a type of social pathology, or illness, that resulted when individuals or institutions failed to keep pace with changing conditions. View on criminal deviance: crime as a threat to social order, social problems as a form of criminal deviance, punishment as a solution to criminal deviance. Social-disorganization theory: society and groups have a set of expectations and rules, social disorganization theorists analyzed the consequences of social changes, such as immigration, urbanization, and industrialization, social disorganization results when normlessness, culture conflict, and breakdown take place.
