Unit 1 – Contemporary Issues: It’s Nature and Importance

Question 1

ability to see things from different perspectives

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Social Awareness

Question 2

view and comprehend a situation or concept from a different vantage point

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Perspective-taking

Question 3

understand and share another person’s feeling

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Empathy

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actions that recognize the individual uniqueness and differences in race, gender , religion, ethnicity, and belief.

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Appreciating Diversity

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view the world with open mindedness and a wide perspective; treating others with kindness.

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Respect for others

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a psychological phenomenon that occurs when a group of people makes faulty or ineffective decisions due to the desire for harmony or conformity within the group.

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GROUPTHINK

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The group feels overly confident in its decisions and believes it cannot make mistakes.

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Illusion of Invulnerability

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Members of the group justify their decisions collectively, dismissing warnings or contrary evidence.

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Collective Rationalization

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The group believes in the inherent morality of its position, leading members to ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions

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Belief in Inherent Morality

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The group views those who are outside the group or hold opposing views as inherently wrong or inferior.

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Stereotyping Outsiders

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Individuals who voice dissenting opinions are pressured to conform to the group’s views.

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Pressure on Dissenters

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Members of the group withhold their dissenting opinions to avoid conflict or disapproval.

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Self-Censorship

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Illusion of Unanimity

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Because dissent is suppressed, the group often perceives a false sense of unanimity, thinking everyone is in agreement.

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DISADVANTAGES

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failure to explore other opportunities, tendency of each members to express himself/herself and stand as a leader, Others limit their responses and just agree to the decision of the leader

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Some members of the group may take on the role of protecting the group from dissenting opinions or negative information.

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Mindguards

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What must be done to
resolve social issues.

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strategic and well-organized decision-making

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Developed societies are highly
complicated entities so what needed to be done

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contemporary issue must be examined from many angles from individual to global!!!

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What is a social issue

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A state or a pattern of behavior
in which certain individuals or
people in society are disadvantaged or harmed.

Question 19

Social issues encourage

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The public to plan collectively
for resolutions and change
And come up with concrete solutions.

Question 20

Plans and solutions must be updated

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the changing attitude of the people towards the different social issues

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Types of social symptoms

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Destructive behavior, Unsuccessful, unproductive, debatable regulations
Generations of material, political, social, and cultural environments that are unjust to people.

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CAUSES OF SOCIAL ISSUES

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Flawed Behaviors, Harmful Character, Social Problems

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a person is outside of the social problem. He or she is a passive observer to society

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Passive actor

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a person is participating or involved in the social problem.

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Participating Actor

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A holistic sum of all the interdependent parts that collaborate to achieved a goal.

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Society is a system.

Question 25

a systematic holistic system approach to interrelate various parts of the system as a whole.

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System thinking

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The SYSTEMS APPROACH TO RESLOVE SOCIAL ISSUES

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INTER CONNECTEDNESS, SYNTHESIS, EMERGENCE, FEEDBACKING, SYSTEMS MAPPING

Question 27

involves identifying degrees of freedom in mental states.

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dynamic thinking

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Placing responsibility for behavior on internal actors who manage the policies and ‘plumbing’ of the system.

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System-as-cause thinking

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a way of seeing and thinking that acknowledges the presence of many things/ideas/species living together in a complex web of life.

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Forest-thinking

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about mapping relationships

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Operational thinking

Question 31

the assumption that we have a complete understanding of a concept or a reality

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closed-loop thinking

Question 32

kills that enable one to solve problems with numbers.

Answer 32

quantitative thinking

Question 33

scientific thinking observations, investigational processes, and testing them to gain knowledge.

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scientific thinking