Module 6: Decision Making & Problem Solving

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the module, students will be able to:

  1. Classify problems using strategic reasoning.
  2. Apply ethical reasoning to decision-making processes.
  3. Analyze policy implications through policy analysis.
  4. Evaluate the impact of racial prejudice on public policy preferences.
  5. Examine social movements targeting racial, ethnic, and gender inequality.
  6. Explore alternative programs and policies aimed at reducing racial/ethnic inequality, gender inequality, and sexuality inequality.

KEY TERMS & CONCEPTS

Define and offer real-world illustrations of the fundamental terms and concepts as you read the module to encourage active participation and learning.

  • Acting crowd
  • Affirmative Action
  • Agenda
  • Asylum seekers
  • Casual crowd
  • Celebration riots
  • Children of displaced families
  • Collective behavior
  • Conceptual questions
  • Contagion theory
  • Conventional crowd
  • Convergence theory
  • Craze
  • Crowd
  • Detention without charge or trial
  • Disaster
  • Disaster behavior
  • Displaced individuals
  • Domestic violence
  • Emergent norm theory
  • Empirical questions
  • Ethical reasoning
  • Evaluative questions
  • Expressive crowd
  • Fade
  • Female Genital Mutilation
  • Human rights
  • Issue recognition
  • Labor trafficking
  • Mass hysteria
  • Mixed-status families
  • Mob
  • Moral panic
  • Panic
  • Policy problem
  • Political opportunity theory
  • Protest crowd
  • Protest riot
  • Public policy
  • Purposive riots
  • Reactionary movements
  • Reform movement
  • Refugee families
  • Relative deprivation
  • Religious movements
  • Revelous riots
  • Revolutionary movement
  • Rumor
  • Self-help movements
  • Sex trafficking
  • Social movement
  • Strategic reasoning
  • Structural-strain theory
  • Symbolic riots
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

INTRODUCTION

Critical and creative thinking play essential roles in crafting solutions to social problems that are not only effective but also sustainable and just. Proficiency in strategic and ethical reasoning further provides the essential frameworks needed to comprehend, strategize, and execute interventions that foster positive outcomes for society.

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