SOC 0007 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Formal System, Social Darwinism, Social Control
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Social problems: socially induced conditions that cause psychic and material suffering for any segment of the population and acts and conditions that violate norms and values found in society. When you study social problems, you must be very objective. Put it in the social and economic context of america. Representative of the population as a whole. Subjective nature of social problems: what is defined as a social problem differs by audience and time. Objective reality of social problems: conditions in society that induce material of psychic suffering for certain segments of the population. Person-blame: the individual decided to violate the norms in the first place: cultural deprivation: don"t do well in school because the student didn"t learn. English as a first language: criminals are greedy, aggressive, and have weak impulse control, the system is taken for granted and problems come from individuals deviating from norms, consequences:
