[01:920:101] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 23 pages long Study Guide!
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We are inclined to view things as personal troubles or challenges. Eg. getting into college, pursuing a career, or finding a job. Reinforced by predominant political ideology of individualism. Careers are not something that you choose, they can be random. However, personal troubles can be affected by, or even caused by social phenomena. That glut is a problem that affects us collectively - a public issue, or social problem. Structure of society and household, experience of the world is compound results of factors like job loss - ramifies outward. High school dropout rates - social, collective problem. Personally, we adjust to social forces, but others do just as well, sometimes in the same way you are adjusting! Individuals respond to what they see is a collective need, but everyone else can see it that way too, so it isn"t really easy to game the system . Thinking about personal experience from the standpoint of larger structural forces.
