SOC 5 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Interactionism, Deviance (Sociology), Situation Two
Document Summary
Empirical strategies for looking at whatever social problem you"re looking at. Focus on the objective reality of social problems. Treating social problems as if they are real. Look at social problems as being real phenomena, real victims, real people being affected. It is real many people we know have been victims to crime, real people being affected (injured physically, emotionally, psychologically), can damage the overall well-being of society (can affect your choices, decisions, behavior) What are the consequences (what does it mean for society and people who are living in it?) What should be done? (how can it be fixed?) Often, objectivists lenses are influenced by functionalist and conflict perspective lenses. In order maintain society, we must solve these problems. Conflict perspective may try to improve conditions of people who are subordinated by those situations. Our ideas about how much risk we have are kind of independent on how much risk there actually is .
