Social Problems

Catalog description

Introduces students to the ways that sociologists seek to understand social conditions, events, and behaviors that people think of as "social problems" that need to be solved. Students will examine a range of social problems, such as poverty, crime, inequality, violence, environmental change, and race/sex/gender discrimination, from a variety of perspectives regarding their causes, consequences, and solutions. Encourages students to use sociological tools to critically assess the validity of claims about social problems so they can decide for themselves what should be done to address them.