Social problems: Who makes them?
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Learn about the identification, definition, and meaning of social problems in today’s society. Discover how social constructions and labeling can create expectations and inequalities. Study conflicts within social science.
Anti-social behaviour, homelessness, drugs, mental illness: all problems in today’s society. But what makes a problem social? This free course, Social problems: Who makes them?, will help you to discover how these issues are identified, defined, given meaning and acted upon. You will also look at the conflicts within social science in this area.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Illustrate what is social about social science
Demonstrate how certain social constructions become dominant
Distinguish how labelling something can create expectations about behaviour and actions
Give examples of inequalities that result from particular social constructions.
