Social Problems Chapter 1

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In what ways are critical thinking skills and methods of research useful in analyzing a social problem?

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They give valid information to consider effective ways of solving the problem

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When a problem is personal, individual strategies are employed to deal with the problem, where the individual looks inward for a solution that is sometimes found in a(n) ____ mechanism

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escape

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Which of the following might result is rape is considered a social problem?

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factors outside the individual would come into focus

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define a social problem

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condition or pattern that: 1. contradicts a condition or pattern of behavior that is defined as incompatible with a desired quality of life. 2. is caused, facilitated or prolonged by multiple factors of social life. 3. involves intergroup conflict. 4. requires social action to be resolved.

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structural functionalism

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theory that focuses on social systems and how their interdependent parts maintain order

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conflict theory

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theory that focuses on contradictory interests, inequalities between social groups, which results in change

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symbolic interactionism

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sociological theory that focuses on interaction between individuals, the individual's perception of the situation, and the ways in which social life is constructed through interaction

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contradiction

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opposing phenomena within the same social system

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stratification system

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arrangement of society into groups that are unequal with regard to such valued resources as wealth, power, and prestige.

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social problems typically involve

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intergroup conflict

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the fallacy of misplaced concreteness is caused by ____, making what is abstract into something concrete

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reification

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critical thinking

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is the process of carefully attending to spoken and written information in order to evaluate its validity

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fallacy of dramatic instance

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overgeneralizing

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fallacy of retrospective determinism

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the argument that things could not have worked out any other way than they did

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Why is it difficult to resolve social problems?

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contradictions are defined differently by opposing groups

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the fallacy of dramatic instance tends to

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overgeneralize a few instances to make all seem that way

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the validity of information on a social problem should be determined by ____

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gathering data to test various explanations

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reitification

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defining what is abstract by something concrete

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fallacy of misplaced concreteness

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making something abstract into something concrete

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fallacy of personal attack

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a debater personally attacks his/her opponent when they cannot come up with an adequate argument. It is effective because it draws attention to things other than the opposers argument

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fallacy of appeal to justice

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debater uses prejudice or or passions to convince others of the correctness of their positions

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fallacy of circular reasoning

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using conclusions to support the assumptions that were necessary to make the conclusion

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fallacy of authority

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an illegitimate appeal to authority

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When does the fallacy of authority take place

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when we rely on someone else's experience, research, and beliefs.

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fallacy of composition

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the assertion that what is true of the part is necessarily true of the whole

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fallacy of non sequiter

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something that does not follow logically what preceded it