AHSS*3050 Midterm: test review

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The sociological imagination (term coined by c wright mills) the ability to see connections between macro events and micro events. They may even lead to increases in the suicide rate. Nowhere is the truth of this more obvious than among homeless people. Besides social isolation, they also suffer disproportionately from unemployment, poverty, physical weakness, and mental illness. What is a social problem a social problem is a social condition or behaviour that is thought to warrant public concern and collective action. we can define a social problem as both a condition and a process. As a condition, a social problem is an empirically observed situation that threatens the well-being of a significant part of society. As a process, a social problem is the sequence of events by which members of a community come to see the situation as deserving collective remedial action. A goal of sociology is to study these subjective beliefs and their outcomes.

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