Social problems are something socially constructed by human beings.
• All are human construction: slave systems, prejudice and discrimination, democracies and
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dictatorship, economic systems as capitalism or socialism, and norms, values, and beliefs.
• However, according to Marx (1964), these came to control us through tens or hundreds of
years.
• People say, “This is the way it is and has been, and this is the way it will always be.”
• The fact is that social problems are created by human beings. Thus we can solve them. Or
we can change them in a better way.