How Did I Really Change My Way Off Thinking?

When I decided to register for this class, I did not know what the course was really about. I just wanted to have a class that helped me be a fulltime student. But today as I am writing this paper, I am glad that I did not drop it because I have learned so much and still learning. Throughout the course, there are some key terms that really change my way off thinking or added to my knowledge. For this final assignment, I had in mind to write a paper about Diabetes in the US or immigration. However, this would not be fair for me because there are some key concepts that help me understand better the course the society as whole. Social problems, correlation, causation, sweatshop, alienation, Mcdonalization, capitalism, extreme poverty, technology, and environmental problems are the ten concepts I will be discussing.
Through the lecture, I learned that a problem become a social problem only when a segment of the population find it harmful to the society and that a solution is needed. This is my first key term because understanding it is the foundation of studying social problems. Before knowing it, all problems were social or none of them were social for because I did not know the differences between problems. From learning this, many questions have raised into my mind: How many people are included in the segment to make it a social problem? What percentage should the sample be until it becomes a social problem? How many researches should be done to figure out a problem is a social problem? I do not have the answers to my