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Yuri da Silva Oliveira

has completed the free course including any mandatory tests for:

Social problems: Who makes them?

This 20-hour free course explored how social problems are identified, defined,
given meaning and acted upon, and looked at competing explanations.

Issue date: 4 November 2023

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Course summary
Completed study
Anti-social behaviour, homelessness, drugs,
The learner has completed the following:
mental illness: all problems in today's society.
But what makes a problem social? This free Section 1
course, Social problems: Who makes them?,
will help you to discover how these issues are The social construction of social problems
identified, defined, given meaning and acted
Section 2
upon. You will also look at the conflicts within
social science in this area. ‘What everybody knows’

Section 3
Learning outcomes
Tracing the deposits
By completing this course, the learner should be
able to: Section 4
illustrate what is social about social science Mapping the field: competing constructions
demonstrate how certain social constructions
become dominant Section 5
distinguish how labelling something can
Scepticism and social construction
create expectations about behaviour and
actions Section 6
give examples of inequalities that result from
particular social constructions. The question of ideology: social interests and
social constructions

Section 7

Norms, truth and power: discourses of social

problems

Section 8

Conclusion: the view from social constructionism

Section 10

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https://www.open.edu/openlearn COURSE CODE: D218_1

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