SOCI 202 Chapter 7: Chp 7 Social Problems and Troubled People
24 Oct 2016
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Troubled persons industry: a term for organizations and groups designed to do something to help or rehabilitate or punish the people in social problems organized. These organizations range from support groups to prisons to mental hospitals and so on. Social problems formula and the troubled persons industry. Each organization and group in the troubled persons industry is a consequence of successful social problems. Audience members have been convinced that a condition is intolerable and that something needs to be done. Organizations focus on individual-levels of help, rehab, or punishment. Troubled persons groups people together: example: troubled teens, teenage moms, alcoholics, etc. Social problem formula stories and service fragmentation: very narrow in focus and often reflect a trouble person"s narrowness. Social problems formula stories and the complexity of experience: containing specific types of plot features including characters. Workers and clients in the troubled persons industry. Workers usually involve doing work with victims on villains. Example: social worker, judges, prison guards, etc.
