Instructions: Select two questions from the list below and provide a detailed answer to each question in your initial post. Be sure to indicate the number of the questions you selected in front of...

Instructions:
Select two questions from the list below and provide a detailed answer to each question in your initial post. Be sure to indicate the number of the questions you selected in front of your answers. In addition, respond to two peers' initial posts who answered different questions than the ones you selected.

These are “think” questions; you will not find a single, simple (or perfect) answer to them in the book. They are designed for you to use what you read in Chapter 19 to think through the issues. Personal feelings and opinions will often come into play but be sure that your answer is grounded in our scholarly study of the subject and that your answer demonstrates that you have read and understood the chapter.

1. How much do you think social problems are the result of design or neglect? Do social problems come out of social policy, as the authors suggest?


2. Should we create and invest in policies and programs that protect citizens from poverty, unemployment and other social problems, or should we expect individuals to be solely responsible for solving these?


3. Why does it seem easier to spend ten times the cost to contain a problem, like building prisons, than to invest in social programs that would help prevent criminal behavior from occurring? What might convince politicians to work on preventive measures and long term change rather than "band aids" and short term measures?


4. Have you ever participated in any collective efforts to make progressive change? If so, what were they? What social cause might you get involved in and why would it be that cause?


5. How has the court system been used to create social policy? Is this a misuse of our democratic principles of having the legislative branch of government create social policy? Can the judicial branch really affect progressive change or reform?


6. Can people from privileged backgrounds, like most politicians, really make policy changes to support true equality? Dopoliticianshave a conflict of interest in instituting progressive social policy? Please use the attached readings and reference