SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Inequality, Social Constructionism, Teenage Pregnancy
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Social problem social condition or pattern of behavior that demands social concern/collective action. Society has rallies and other public events to create awareness to support/protest gays, lesbians, immigrants, and other types of rights. We can"t fix all the problems but we can support the right causes: hard to determine truth from falsehood, fact from exaggeration, etc. Sociology helps inform ourselves about current problems and make connections to resolve these problems. Study of social problems is old as study of sociology (19th century: marx, weber and durkheim were all concerned about social problems; they expressed it differently. Sociology = social change, conflict, and cohesion ;; all related to social problems. In na and we believed in progress = industrialization, urbanization, scientific discoveries, and also social improvement/ amelioration: believed improvements could be made by applying knowledge and expelling ignorance, prejudice, superstition, etc . But we do not see nor hear everything.
