SOC 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Economic Inequality

• School: University of Kansas
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 160
• Professor: Dr. Jarron M. Saint Onge

Document Summary

Social problem- a condition or pattern that harms people in a society and warrants public concern and collective action to bring about change. Productive members of society (people need to be) Work for your things (goes along with being productive members of society) If it is personal (ex. constantly being late) then the individual. Divorce rates or if certain workers go on strike) then the society needs to realize the issue and solve it. Education (afford or not afford to go to college) Health and disease (more rich people are healthy and more poor people have diseases) Immigration (the ability to or lack of ability) Crime/prison (amount of people incarcerated and the cost to run prisons)