SOC 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Criminal Negligence, Corporate Crime

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2080
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Why are some people/issues considered a certain kind of problem and not another: when we identify something as problematic, there is also something about it that we consider deviant (the two ideas go hand in hand) Maybe this wouldn"t be a problem if bars were closer to homes: it is a problem of criminal negligence because this socially constructed idea emerged via madd. Corporate crime volkswagen pollution scandal (no one seems to care as much about this, but why?) Because anti-bullying advocacy groups have framed it as such, and the public believes it to be true. Herbert blumer"s social problems as collective behaviour . Blumer argued that in order to solve problems, sociologists need to study the processes that make something a problem. His suggestion was to create a systematic way to study what steps social problems go through to be perceived as a social problem.