SOC102H1 Chapter 1: Social Problems Chapter 1 What are Social Problems?
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Progress: industrialization and urbanization; inventions and scientific discovery; and exposure to new and different ideas and cultures improvement or social amelioration . Objective elements: measurable features of a negative social condition -> crime, poverty, or alcohol abuse. Subjective elements: people"s evaluations of objective conditions and the processes that influence their evaluations. Mills: sociological imaginations is the ability to see connections between one"s own life, the social world in which one lives and between person or private troubles and public issues. Thomas dictum: when people define a situation as real, the situation will be real in its own effects. Social constructionism: sociological research approach that examines the ways people interact to create a shared social reality. Moral entrepreneurs: people who discover and attempt to publicize deviant behaviours. Claims-making: a procedure that describes, explains and blames people whore involved with the problem. Mead- symbolic interactionism : children learn to interact with others by learning a system of symbols.
