SOCI 202 Chapter appendix : Appendix Social Construction Theories and Issues
24 Oct 2016
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Theoretical: means that no personal views of opinions intersect with the ideas forming of your social problems. Social problems are the activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievances of claims with respect to some putative conditions. Spector and kitsuse justified constructionist perspectives on social problems through emphasizing the failures of objectivist approaches. Phenomenology: the belief that we cannot merely transport the models and assumptions of natural science into the study of human social life because humans are different form planets, rocks, weather, frogs, and other objects of concern to natural science. Ethnomenthodolgy: the study of practical activities (methods) of ethnos (folk) Asks the question: how do practical actors create and sustain a sense of objective reality? . They both look at/examine the creation and maintenance of human meaning. Hold the belief that meaning is social and socially constructed. Share the belief that while humans must create meaning, the social order gives us resources to do so.
