SOC102H1 Chapter 1: Social Problems - Chapter 1 A concise summary of Chapter 1 - What are Social Problems from the Social Problems book. Everything is organized in point form and it includes all important information.
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Social problem: a social condition or pattern of behaviour that is believed to warrant public concern and collective action. Sociology is about social change, social conflict, and social cohesion. Objective elements are the measurable features of a negative social condition. Subjective elements: people"s evaluations of objective conditions and the processes that influence their evaluations. They include moral labels that people apply to particular acts or situations, and the accounts they give for these acts and situations: reflect people"s beliefs and tastes, eg. Believe that smoking marijuana is evil then this belief is an aspect of social realities: our subjective" or emotional responses often lead to what we call the social construction" of social problems. Subjective" aspects affect and reflect our emotional reactions to information we receive about the world. Claims making a process by which people try to capture attention and mobilize public opinion around particular problems and their solutions.
