sos 202
SOC-220: Social Change Process Worksheet
Constructionist Social Problems Theory focuses on the process in which a society’s identified social condition can result in social movement. This process moves from a social condition, to a social issue, to a social problem and then to social movement. The social problems process can involve a series of actions: claims making, media coverage, public reactions, policymaking, implementing policy, and policy outcomes. A visual of this process is as follows:
Select a social condition to use to walk through this process completing the second page of the worksheet:
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Social Condition: Make a case, with supporting evidence as to why the condition is a social condition. Your evidence might answer how there is disequilibrium or how is it wrong or not as it should be. (a minimum of 200 words)
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Social Issue through Clams making: Make a case, with supporting evidence, both subjectively and objectively. (a minimum of 200 words) Subjective data:
Objective data:
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Social Problem: Make a case, with supporting evidence, proving that society sees your identified issue as a problem. Your supporting evidence might include media coverage and/or proposed policy. (a minimum of 200 words and 2 references)
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Social Movement: Make a case, with supporting evidence, of a social movement that has occurred related to your identified social condition. Your supporting evidence might include policy and/or policy outcomes. If social movement hasn’t occurred, you may instead identify an idea you have as a solution to the identified social condition. (a minimum of 200 words and 2 references)
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