The Goal of a Social Problems Course Is

question 45

Multiple Choice

The goal of a Social Problems course is

• A) to educate students about the unique social problems in the U.S. that have little hope of ever being solved.
• B) to expose both the misguided notions about social problems that have contributed to conventional thinking, as well as offer examples of solutions based on critical thinking and careful observation that actually work.
• C) to make students comfortable and confident in their own conventional thinking about the way the world works.
• D) to promote a specific political agenda that all sociologists adhere to in their studies of society.

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