Objective and subjective aspects of a social problem

1. Define and discuss the objective and subjective aspects of a social problem (one to two paragraphs, 10 points).
2. How can we sociologically understand childhood poverty as a social problem? Draw on “Growing up Poor in America,” (one to two paragraphs, 10 points).
3. Functionalist thought is an important tradition of both twentieth and twentieth-first century social thought. How are social problems explained from a functionalist perspective (one to two paragraphs,10 points).
4. Define and discuss maternal mortality as perhaps the most telling health indicator across societies (one paragraph, 10 points).
   How do we effectively address maternal mortality, and the improvement of global health outcomes more generally? (one to two paragraphs, 10 points).

. How do images or cultural representations of drug use in social media both promote drug use and engender the experience of alienation or feeling estranged or separated from the larger society (one to two paragraphs, 10 points).

6. Identify and discuss three key ways in which law enforcement is being re-conceptualized (one to two paragraphs,10 points).