CHAPTER 18: CAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS BE SOLVED?
By the end of this chapter students will be able to:
- Define the term infrastructure, explain why a natural disaster, such as Hurricane Katrina, is so devastating to it, and the impact this has on people’s lives.
- Discuss some of the problems encountered when attempting to identify and solve social problems.
- Examine the elements of microlevel and macrolevel attempts at solving social problems.
- Identify the features of seeking individual solutions to social problems.
- Examine the solution to social problems from short-term, mid-term, and long-term strategies.
- Define and apply how grassroots groups work for community based change.
- Define a social movement and identify the contribution social movements make to solving social problems.
- Understand the role of special interest groups in solving social problems.
- List, define, and give examples of the five types of social movements.
- Recognize the limitations of the macrolevel solution approach to solving social problems.
- Summarize the three major sociological perspectives and the fundamental points of each as they pertain to the solution of social problems.
