The sociological viewpoint toward social problems 1) Citing our textbook material, explain how the sociological approach toward social problems differs from other approaches. Why are certain problems considered significant and others are not?
Sociology is still a relatively young science and started from the need, not only to understand social structures, individuals and groups and their relationships, but also how to change them. It deals with the origin, development and contexts of society and tries to explain them from general principles out. Between theory and practice some areas of special importance need to be mentioned, such as the study of the social institutions like family, economy, and education. Sociology works on a methodical …show more content…
TV, Internet, Newspaper, Blogs informing society. For people that are interested in addressing such problems are thousands of ways to receive and give information or help. There is a broad spectrum of private charities and voluntary organizations. Volunteering, especially among retirees, continues to grow in the United States. It is estimated that nearly 50 percent of all Americans to exercise over 18 years volunteer work, and nearly 75 percent of all households donate money to charity (Charity Navigator 2015). Some people believe that poverty is the biggest problem so they help in food banks with worked time or food donations. Others believe that animal rights are abused constantly, so they read and watch about it and volunteer some time and money for rescues. Everybody has the chance of education through public …show more content…
Social stratification is showing us a society where there is an imbalanced sharing of resources. The people are sorted in social classes according to how much they own. There are several methods on finding those stratifications. Maps for example showing that most poverty is down South.
Social inequality. The U.S. Census Bureau is showing that only 400 Americans own the same much money, than 50% of all the other Americans together. In 2013 about 316,128,839 people are living in America. 400 of these Americans have more money than 158 million of the other Americans.
The Culture of poverty is showing racial differences in Education. For example are the high-school - drop- out rates not as high in the white population but is the highest in the Hispanic group. Enrollment in college is the highest in the white population and the least in the African- American group. School is not always accessible for everybody and some people even today cannot or do not want to afford to send their children to college, as they are scared about the child being in debt for the next 20 years with a $100.000 student
Sociology is still a relatively young science and started from the need, not only to understand social structures, individuals and groups and their relationships, but also how to change them. It deals with the origin, development and contexts of society and tries to explain them from general principles out. Between theory and practice some areas of special importance need to be mentioned, such as the study of the social institutions like family, economy, and education. Sociology works on a methodical …show more content…
TV, Internet, Newspaper, Blogs informing society. For people that are interested in addressing such problems are thousands of ways to receive and give information or help. There is a broad spectrum of private charities and voluntary organizations. Volunteering, especially among retirees, continues to grow in the United States. It is estimated that nearly 50 percent of all Americans to exercise over 18 years volunteer work, and nearly 75 percent of all households donate money to charity (Charity Navigator 2015). Some people believe that poverty is the biggest problem so they help in food banks with worked time or food donations. Others believe that animal rights are abused constantly, so they read and watch about it and volunteer some time and money for rescues. Everybody has the chance of education through public …show more content…
Social stratification is showing us a society where there is an imbalanced sharing of resources. The people are sorted in social classes according to how much they own. There are several methods on finding those stratifications. Maps for example showing that most poverty is down South.
Social inequality. The U.S. Census Bureau is showing that only 400 Americans own the same much money, than 50% of all the other Americans together. In 2013 about 316,128,839 people are living in America. 400 of these Americans have more money than 158 million of the other Americans.
The Culture of poverty is showing racial differences in Education. For example are the high-school - drop- out rates not as high in the white population but is the highest in the Hispanic group. Enrollment in college is the highest in the white population and the least in the African- American group. School is not always accessible for everybody and some people even today cannot or do not want to afford to send their children to college, as they are scared about the child being in debt for the next 20 years with a $100.000 student