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Dec 30, 2024
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IPPD 0611 - Social Issues and Public Policy History
Credits: 3
IPPD 0611 examines a variety of issues that are considered “social problems.” Such “social problems will include, inter alia, crime and punishment, race, gender, poverty, and the welfare state. How do specific issues come to be considered “problems” in the first place, while other issues do not? What are the most conventional and not so conventional approaches to solving such problems? These are some central questions that this question will examine. We will begin with the constructionist perspective, which centers around one question: why do we recognize some social conditions as “problems” while simultaneously ignoring other conditions? Additionally, why do we recognize some social conditions as problems at one time, while during a later period we do not consider them problems?
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