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| The ability to connect one's personal experience to society at large and greater historical forces. (Make the familiar strange) |
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| Based in fact and measurable conditions. (Social scientists do not agree on definition of social problems, not value free, overlook social conditions that are detrimental to powerless) |
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| Based on interpretation; decisions made about what is a social problem and why |
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| Focuses on individuals who don't follow social rules, deviance is culturally defined and labeled, powerful in society define who is deviant and what constitutes a social problem |
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| Aspects of society that cuase material suffering, who benefits from the existing arrangements?, bias of the system rather than problem individuals |
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| The assumption that social problems result from the pathologies of individuals. (Ex. Cultural deprivation implies that the culture is inferior or deficient compared to the majority culture) |
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| The assumption that social problems result from social conditions. (Point to deficiencies within societal institutions) |
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| Free market with competition among innumerable small competitors, responds to the demands of the market. |
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| Megamergers, interlocking directorates, transnational corporations |
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| Increase centralization of capital, increase power of huge corporations over workers, reduce number of jobs, increase corporate debt |
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| Interlocking Directorates |
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| Linkage between corporations and their leaders, |
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| Transnational Corporations |
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| Move prodution to low-wage nonunion countries, make use of lower foreign production costs, avoid strict labor safety and environmental protection laws in US |
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| Lobbyists persuade legislators to vote their way |
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| McCain-Feingold Law (2002) |
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| Designed to limit use of "soft money" in federal elections |
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| Authors' Bias in political system |
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| Power is concentarted in power elite who use power for its own advantage, systemic imperitives, belief in democracy is advantage to those in power, subsidies to big businesses, trickle-down solutions, creation of foreign policy for corporate benefit. |
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| Use power to their own advantage |
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| A political system ruled by few |
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| Government by or in the interest of the rich |
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| 6 Ways Campaign Finance Sabotages Democracy |
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| Makes it more difficult to solve social problems, interests of the have-nots are not served, money chase creates part time legislators and full time fundraisers, money diminishes the gap between the two major parties because both seek funds, discourages voting and civic participation, big money leads to bias in laws passed |
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| 3 Ways to Reduce Fertility |
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| Economic development, family planning programs, social change |
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| Problems of overpopulation |
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| Poverty, sickness and disease, food and hunger, new slavery, concentration of misery in cities |
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| Reasons for the underdevelopment of the developing world |
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| Transnational corporations, growing public and private debt, arms sales, corporate dumping |
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| The surface layer of the planet and the surrounding atmosphere |
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| The mechanisms (plants, animals, and microorganisms) that supply people with the essentials of life |
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| Ecosystems destroyed by... |
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| Increase in population, growing inequality of income, economic growth |
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| Cornucopia vew of nature = belief that nature is a vast storehouse only to be used by people, faith in technology, growth ethic, materialism, and individualism |
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| Capitalist economy, polity, demographic patterns, system of stratification, control of resource use |
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