SOC102H1 Chapter Notes -White-Collar Crime, Social Inequality, Symbolic Interactionism
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Narratives of blame socially constructed accounts attached to groups, justify advantages/disadvantages. Social problem a social condition or pattern of behavior that is believed. Practices of oppression practices of economic/non-economic to warrant public concern and collective action; two aspects: objective & subjective. Objective elements the measurable features of a negative social condition. Such a condition might include crime, poverty, or alcohol abuse and can be considered and objective reality. Subjective elements people"s evaluations of objective conditions and the processes that influence their evaluation. They include moral labels that people apply to particular acts or situations, and the accounts they give for these acts and situations. Social imagination used by c. wright mills. Describes sociologist"s ability to connect seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces to the most basic incidents of an individual"s life. The sociological imagination enables people to distinguish between person troubles and public issues. behavior (exploitation, domination, exclusion, discrimination). First need social differentiation may follow/precede narratives of blame.
