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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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