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Social construction
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The concept of social construction is an academic term, which attempts to provide an interpretation or explanation of certain factors that can be deemed as sociometric or the study of relationships within a group or society. Such factors would include the manifestation and construction of social problems. Some academics have attempted to suggest that the process of social construction moves though several predefined stages and have identified these as the stages of awareness, organising, policy making and ideology (Butterworth and Weir, 1982). In this essay I will attempt to explore how a social problem is 'constructed' and how poverty has been constructed into such a problem. I will first look at how poverty is defined and how it has been considered as a deviation from the norm. I will discuss how poverty is viewed from a historical viewpoint how the distribution of power influences the construction of a social problem,...
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