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In what ways are critical thinking skills and methods of research useful in analyzing a social problem? |
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 |
escape |
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Which of the following might result is rape is considered a social problem? |
factors outside the individual would come into focus |
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define a social problem |
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 |
theory that focuses on social systems and how their interdependent parts maintain order |
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conflict theory |
theory that focuses on contradictory interests, inequalities between social groups, which results in change |
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symbolic interactionism |
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 |
opposing phenomena within the same social system |
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stratification system |
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 |
intergroup conflict |
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the fallacy of misplaced concreteness is caused by ____, making what is abstract into something concrete |
reification |
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critical thinking |
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 |
overgeneralizing |
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fallacy of retrospective determinism |
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? |
contradictions are defined differently by opposing groups |
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the fallacy of dramatic instance tends to |
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 ____ |
gathering data to test various explanations |
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reitification |
defining what is abstract by something concrete |
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fallacy of misplaced concreteness |
making something abstract into something concrete |
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fallacy of personal attack |
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 |
debater uses prejudice or or passions to convince others of the correctness of their positions |
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fallacy of circular reasoning |
using conclusions to support the assumptions that were necessary to make the conclusion |
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fallacy of authority |
an illegitimate appeal to authority |
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When does the fallacy of authority take place |
when we rely on someone else's experience, research, and beliefs. |
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fallacy of composition |
the assertion that what is true of the part is necessarily true of the whole |
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fallacy of non sequiter |
something that does not follow logically what preceded it |