Chapter 1
What is Sociology?
What is social policy?
Refers to a lack of basic necessities, such as food, shelter, and income
What is absolute poverty?
Conscious, collective, organized attempt to bring about or resist large-scale change in the social order.
What is social movements?
Focus on Society
What is Macro?
May take the form of a policy, a program, or advocacy, but features an untested or unique approach
What is social innovation?
Refers to a situation in which some people fail to achieve the average income or lifestyle enjoyed by the rest of society
What is Relative Poverty?
Recognize that you can make a difference!
What is the first step to affect change?
Focus on Individual
What is Micro?
A social condition or pattern of behavior that has negative consequences for individuals or our social or physical world
What is a social problem?
Compose the largest group of poor individuals in the US
What is White Americans?
Explore opportunities for service on your campus and your community
What is the second step to affect change?
Focuses on the structures of society and their essential and unique functions that create and maintain social order.
What is Functionalist perspective?
Focuses on the experiences of women, paying close attention to other areas of oppression such as race and ethnicity, age, social class, sexual orientation, and disability, as the starting point in all sociological investigations to ultimately promote a better world for women and for all humankind.
What is Feminist perspective?
Poverty exists because those in power wish to maintain and expand their base of power and interests and not share it with others.
What is Conflict theorists?
Do what you enjoy doing!
What is the third step to affect change?
Focuses on how social problems emerge from the continuing conflict between groups in society.
What is conflict perspective?
Focuses on the subjective creation and definition of symbols and interaction which will lead to the evolution of the social creation of social problems.
What is Interactionist perspective?
Poverty is a learned phenomenon and focus their attention on people's perceptions and definitions of poverty.
What is Interactionists?
Go out and do it!
What is the final step to affect change?