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Social Policy - Constructing Social Problems
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- 1What is the private sphere?Where we experience our personal troubles.
- 2What factors can influence the construction of a social problem?Can threaten societal norms and values.
Moves from private to public sphere.
Media/public figures/statistical evidence.
Possibility of threat to social structures and institutions. - 3Is the scale of a problem important?No, it is more about how much of a threat we perceive the issue to be.
- 4Are social problems and individual needs the same?No, needs can exist without anyone knowing, whereas social problems cannot.
- 5Is one individual factor to blame more than another?No, it is a combination of a variety of factors that results in the emergence of a social problem (Isaacs, 2015).
- 6Describe the realist perspective.Blames the individual.
Looks at characteristics of deviant/different individuals. - 7Describe the constructionist perspective.Looks at societal failures.
Believes social problems are fluid and not fixed.
Moves away from blaming individual. - 8How can we reframe a social problem? Describe using an example.Unemployment
We could blame the individual - lazy, poor work ethic etc, but we could also blame society as having a lack of opportunities.
Since millions are unemployed, we should look at wider picture - economic downturn. - 9What good does reframing a social problem do?If we focus on looking at the systems failures, we stop blaming the individuals, meaning we stop wasting resources on the result and not the cause.
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