SOCI 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Typification
24 Oct 2016
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Today"s worries are not necessarily tomorrow"s worries. Social problems are about conditions that include somebody (people) Social problems of the same content differ from country to country, culture to culture. A changeable issue, (optimism expressed here) social problem is a term we use when we believe the condition can be fixed. A category that holds problems that we believe should be changed. While studying social problems, statistics are used to determine the amount of people affected along with things like: age, ethnicity, and/or gender are analyzed. People"s ideas about risk matter more than actual risk measured by objective indicators. Conditions without harm can exist without public worry. Social problems are what we see as morally wrong. Social fragmentation: science can tell us what is, but not what should be . Post modern: encourages us to be aware that we live in a time of political, social, and moral uncertainties.
