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    1. For its part, symbolic interactionism would focus on how armed robbers make such decisions as when and where to rob someone and on how their interactions with other criminals reinforce their own criminal tendencies. It would also investigate how victims of armed robbery behave when confronted by a robber. To reduce armed robbery, it would advocate programs that reduce the opportunities for interaction among potential criminal offenders, for example, after-school programs that keep at-risk youths busy in “conventional” activities so that they have less time to spend with youths who might help them get into trouble.

      I will be doing my own resreach on this afterwrds!

    2. As these comments might suggest, functionalism views social problems as arising from society’s natural evolution. When a social problem does occur, it might threaten a society’s stability, but it does not mean that fundamental flaws in the society exist. Accordingly, gradual social reform should be all that is needed to address the social problem.

      The way I view it is that there is a social structure in place in a society, and when that structure fails, we will see a rise in social issues. It's almost like an experiment. For context, the. Social structure of a society is the experiment and that experiment fails when there are social problems that just grow and grow to the point where it is hard to ignore and we've seen this throughout history, and we've seen how evolutions happen and revolutions happens because let's say the issue got too big to the point where. The masses decided no more but this makes me question is it possible for societies to install a structure that? Minimizes social issues to the fullest extent?

    3. People construct their roles as they interact; they do not merely learn the roles that society has set out for them. As this interaction occurs, individuals negotiate their definitions of the situations in which they find themselves and socially construct the reality of these situations. In so doing, they rely heavily on symbols such as words and gestures to reach a shared understanding of their interaction.

      This is really interesting! my first time learning about this concept

    4. f this cultural standard did not exist, far fewer American women would suffer from eating disorders than do now. Because it does exist, even if every girl and woman with an eating disorder were cured, others would take their places unless we could somehow change this standard. Viewed in this way, eating disorders are best understood as a public issue, not just as a personal trouble.

      and with social media its just getting far more worse!

    5. The high US unemployment rate stemming from the severe economic downturn that began in 2008 provides a telling example of the point Mills was making. Millions of people lost their jobs through no fault of their own. While some individuals are undoubtedly unemployed because they are lazy or lack good work habits, a more structural explanation focusing on lack of opportunity is needed to explain why so many people were out of work. If so, unemployment is best understood as a public issue rather than a personal trouble.

      interestingly enough about 47% of Americans work multiple jobs today

    6. it is easy to think that their problems are theirs alone, and that they and other individuals with the same problems are entirely to blame for their difficulties.

      I think that it's more than us viewing it aa that's the individual's problem alone. I feel like when. We are in society where certain things that wouldn't be considered social norms are. frowned upon on and when people act against societal norms, they're actually dehumanized for it and I think it's so easy for us to just. attack one another rather than being compassionate because there could be so many reasons on why a person decided to commit an act, or why a person Is unemployed, or may be in poor health, drink too much alcohol but focusing specifically on drinking too much alcohol and committing crimes. A person's behavior most of the time has intent. A person doesn't simply in most cases, do something just to do it. There's a reason, let's say for example someone got caught stealing groceries or this is a very well known one that I see all the time, but people steal baby formula. There is one group of people who says that it's wrong and that it's not fair to, people who actually pay for these formulas. And there are other people who will say that well”he person probably couldn't afford getting their baby formula and they wanted to ensure that their baby had something to eat”. So when you're dealing with these two arguments, it could be. let's say someone is an alcoholic. They're usually frowned upon, but we don't know what it is that the alcohol person may be experiencing mentally. And they may be using it as a coping mechanism. However, a lot of people don't really care to aknowledge a different perspective. They just go off on what they believe in and I think that causes more harm. And good, because if you're shaming someone for doing. A crime. Such as stealing or drinking alcohol without really taking the time to understand why The person did it. Then that itself will create more social problems.

    1. he actions of individuals and groups may also make a difference. Many people have public-service jobs or volunteer in all sorts of activities involving a social problem: they assist at a food pantry, they help clean up a riverbank, and so forth

      absolutly! getting involved with your community is SO important!

    2. An important source of change in social problems is protest by a social change group or movement.

      We (young adults) must first learn how to properly organize, I personally enjoy protesting!

    3. lthough social problems are indeed persistent, it is also true that certain problems are less serious now than in the past. Change is possible. As just one of many examples, consider the conditions that workers face in the United States. As Chapter 12 discusses, many workers today are unemployed, have low wages, or work in substandard and even dangerous workplaces. Yet they are immeasurably better off than a century ago, thanks to the US labor movement that began during the 1870s

      Although this is the case its important to note that the rights we currently have from the efforts of those before us does not mean those very rights can not be taken from us at any given moment. which is why people need to involved in their communities, and politics even if they may not want to, rights although viewed as inalienable cant be taken away.

    1. Researchers are often passionate about their work, but they must take care not to let the findings they expect and even hope to uncover affect how they do their research.

      I haven't released my survey yet so this is advice to me!

    2. Observational research, also called field research, is a staple of sociology. Sociologists have long gone into the field to observe people and social settings, and the result has been many rich descriptions and analyses of behavior in juvenile gangs, bars, urban street corners, and even whole communities.

      I actually learned this in psychology and after really conceptualizing the idea of observational studies I realized that I subconsciously do this in public. Not in the sense where I'm like collecting data, which I do sometimes I think to myself I'm like “How many white cars can I count? In the next minute” or “ How many people are wearing this specific color?” Things like that. Although I'm not going out of my way to conduct a experiment to write a paper on it's just so interesting to me to do when I'm bored and in public but in the most normal way possible.

    3. The researchers then determined the percentage of men in each group who committed repeated domestic violence during the next six months and found that those who were arrested had the lowest rate of recidivism, or repeat offending (Sherman & Berk, 1984).

      Although it is good that we see a decrease in repeated violence against women is actually sad, if you think about it, in the perspective in which it had to the intervention of a authority to stop the violence. This for some reason reminds me of the bystander effect and how much it’s a threat to community.

    4. Survey Many people can be included. If given to a random sample of the population, a survey’s results can be generalized to the population. Large surveys are expensive and time consuming. Although much information is gathered, this information is relatively superficial.

      I'm currently using surveys in my research on Gender, higher education, and economic outcome!

    1. Once a social group succeeds in turning a condition or behavior into a social problem, it usually tries to persuade the government (local, state, and/or federal) to take some action—spending and policymaking—to address the problem

      I wish more young people did this more. what i mean is i wish constitutes would go to their representative more and express the social issues happening within their community

    2. . When the contemporary women’s movement began in the late 1970s, it soon focused on rape and sexual assault as serious crimes and as manifestations of women’s inequality. Thanks to this focus, rape and sexual assault eventually entered the public consciousness, views of these crimes began to change, and legal policymakers began to give them more attention. In short, sexual violence against women became a social problem.

      I remember I remember watching a video in which a. Congress member, I believe he was a member in the. Judicial branch, he had trial because a woman that had worked in his cabinet was being sexually assaulted and coerced. So they were in Congress and there was a whole trial. She was standing there, she had to represent herself. We had former President Biden, who was in the committee of people who was interviewing her and as I was watching the video. I forget the name of the video, I can't give you the specific year. But basically it's a group of men interviewing a woman who is coming to them, telling them that she has faced sexual abuse in her workspace and the way they were posing their questions. It was very interesting because the questions were insinuating that she was doing it for attention or someone was putting her up to. So policies are so important.