SOC 2106 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Structural Functionalism, Quebec, Economic Inequality
12 Oct 2018
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Fall 2018
What are social problems?
Chapter Outline:
What is a social problem?
In society it is what we don't want, same for deviance
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Ever since we were born we were trained in the rules and expectations of society, i
is expected that we get a job, consume/ buy goods
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Society expects you to be well behaved, which most of us are. That's how society
works
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What we realize now is that there are behaviours and actions that we do not want.
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Social problem - Alcoholism, drug abuse, delinquency, all of these inhibit what
society wants. It is a social problem
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We need to minimize the amount of people that don't buy into this social contract.
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We usually lose 10% of society at one point or another
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From 1000-17th century, God explained everything. The word of god was absolute.
Then came the enlightenment: 200-300 years and people started disagreeing with
this idea of god being absolute.
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Principles that came out of the enlightenment: liberty, equality, fraternity. All thing
that we still live by in society today. They still dictate our lives
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2 more aspects:
Reason: everything should be explained using experimentation and
observation. It is not just God that dictates it all, there are the laws of nature
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Progress: We should better ourselves all the time. Society should be trying to
better itself constantly. This is where social problems come in though
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Objective and subjective aspects of social problems
We need to differentiate between the two when looking at social problems
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Objective - measurable feature
Alcoholism: takes a huge tole on your health and therefore the health system
itself. This causing problems not only on the person doing the action but
society itself for having to pay more to support this. In a micro-perspective,
dysfunction in the family will cause the child's chances to diminish as they ag
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Week 2 -Sept 10th
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Document Summary
In society it is what we don"t want, same for deviance. Ever since we were born we were trained in the rules and expectations of society, i is expected that we get a job, consume/ buy goods. Society expects you to be well behaved, which most of us are. What we realize now is that there are behaviours and actions that we do not want. Social problem - alcoholism, drug abuse, delinquency, all of these inhibit what society wants. We need to minimize the amount of people that don"t buy into this social contract. We usually lose 10% of society at one point or another. Then came the enlightenment: 200-300 years and people started disagreeing with this idea of god being absolute. Principles that came out of the enlightenment: liberty, equality, fraternity. All thing that we still live by in society today. Reason: everything should be explained using experimentation and observation.
