Dealing with social questions or problems.
The sociological perspective in dealing with the social problems is mainly based on sociological fancy. The public is involved to many difficulties individually. For example, many persons poor and jobless, many are exposed in deprived wellbeing and may drink too much and commit crimes. When one thinks about these people, one understands that their problems come along alone and that they and other persons have the same problems and blames their predicaments. Sociology has a different approach to the perspective as it persons are based on these problems from the society aspects itself. Problems in the society help to reason for the problems that person’s experience. These problems focuses on the personal troubles that are best understood as public matters thus sociological approach of the societal problems refers to the ability to cope up with the structural basis for personal problems. Another social problem is eating disorders, a person’s eating disorder partakes the personal trouble that is form the deficiency of control, low self- honor and personal problem. For instance, maximum Americans with consumption illnesses are ladies and not males, thus this sexual category inequality empowers us to enquire what it is about being a female in the American society that makes consumption complaints more mutual (Giddens, Duneier & Appelbaum, 2003).
Thus eating disorder is considered as a societal issue but not an individual problem. Social problems focus on how and why people understand the problem in the basis of a process and not a status. It is thus viewed as a social problem and that is how they socially make social problems. The social problem starts with claim makers who claim things that some conditions are to be focused as a problem and the problem should be known in many ways and needs to be addressed. Other people respond to those claims and work on them, thus the social problems made in the society should be addressed in critical ways to evaluate the success of the policy. The issues that are defined as social predicaments are complicated in their own nature. Due to this fact, the sociologists must approach to the problem carefully. These issues are categorized into three categories, functionalism, conflict theory and social interactions (Giddens, Duneier & Appelbaum, 2003).
Functionalism
The industrial revolution of the 19th century manipulated these focuses that started in Europe and America and it caused many changes. These changes included the growth and development of the cities as people left their ranches to live near factories. As these cities developed, people grew poorer, crowded and in poor conditions. This evidence shows that a strong society as demonstrated by the strong social connections and policies and successful socialization which was needed to protect social order from decomposing. Lack of strong society and effective socialization creates social breaks down and violence and social disorders (Berg, Lune & Lune, 2004).
Conflict theory
This explains is featured by the inequality in the social class, race and gender. The community alternations are essential in eliminating the community inequality thus making an egalitarian society. The communal predicaments are from the essential liabilities in the features of the society and both show inequalities that are on the race, gender and other factors. Thu the solutions to social predicaments involve change in the whole society (Berg, Lune & Lune, 2004).
Symbolic connections
This shows that people outline their responsibilities as they connect with each other although they do not learn the responsibilities that the society has made for them. As this connection happens, people define their conditions whereby they get themselves and socially make the realism to the condition. Thus social problems arise from the person’s connection. Those who engage in problems that are from social behaviors, learn these manners from other individuals. People may also learn their insights from other persons (Berg, Lune & Lune, 2004). When someone understands these perspectives one understands that the functionalism theory shows that the changes in the society would not be important as part of solutions to the problems in the society. Conflict perspective would take a different approach to the problems in the society. To lessen the problems in the society, this approach would direct to the change in the economic condition of the society. Symbolic approach focuses on the decision to be made to provide solution in the society and it would also establish programs that would lessen the chances for connections that will upsurge problems (Stock & Lambert, 2001).
Sociology is a life philosophy and it tries to discover the features and the interaction between people and the communal world. The ways in which social problems can be solved is by evaluating the social world and avoid false conclusions. The social problems are the vital part of the society and their rise are based on theoretical approach. The social problems encourage the critical thinking as the students understand on how the social matters may influence them either directly or indirectly. Social predicaments encourage the critical thinking on the student as they try to evaluate on how the social matters impact them. Students advance their sociological imaginations as they connect with what is happening in their own lives to the whole social matters that are in the society (Treviño & McCormack, 2014).
Reference
Berg, B. L., Lune, H., & Lune, H. (2004). Qualitative research methods for the social sciences (Vol. 5). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Giddens, A., Duneier, M., & Appelbaum, R. P. (2003). Introduction to sociology. Norton.
Stock, J. R., & Lambert, D. M. (2001). Strategic logistics management (Vol. 4). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Treviño, A. J., & McCormack, K. M. (2014). Service sociology and academic engagement in social problems.
