After viewing the videos in the Unit’s readings and resources, choose either poverty or consumption as a social problem and explore the issue by addressing the following questions:
Define the social problem: Why is it a social problem rather than an individual problem? What are its major causes?
Choose one of the sociological perspectives and briefly describe the social problem through the chosen perspective lens.
What are some possible remedies to this problem?
Mooney, L. A., Knox, D., & Schacht, C. (2017). Understanding social problems (10th ed.). Cengage.
Chapter 1 introduces social problems, including definitions of social problems, social structure, and culture and discussions on the sociological imagination, theoretical approaches, and social problem research.
Chapter 1: Thinking About Social Problems
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