SOCIOL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Societal Collapse, Social Progress
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Social problems work that implements the policy. Not every social problem fits the pattern exactly. Policies are never implemented claims very from place to place and from time to time. Comparative research in which analysts compare what happens when claimsmakers raise claims about the same troubling condition in different places. Diffusion: the way claims spread from one place to another. Issues that attract considerable attention for a time, then fade from notice, only to be revived in a new wave of claimsmaking. Sociologist who study the construction of social problems conduct case studies. Examine one instance, one case of the social problems process- how and why a particular problem was constructed in a given place at a given time. Many studies focus on specific aspects of a particular case. Different analyses of the same case might consider just how the claims" rhetoric was assembled to make a persuasive argument, who made those claims, or how the media covered the topic.
