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:
Selected social condition:
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)
Social Issue through Clams making: Make a case, with supporting evidence, both subjectively and objectively. (a minimum of 200 words)
Subjective data:
Objective data:
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)
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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