Objective Approach

Objectivist way of approach addresses further logical reasoning, compared to subjectivist sense of defining and identifying social problems claims that “issues become problems once society sees or decides they are harmful” (Lecture: “Defining Social Problems”). Objective method seeks a link between certain social problems, like in the lecture, it gives an example of health and obesity. Critics argue that people with obesity is harming condition as they cost society millions of dollars in health care expenditures (Best 6 ). Moreover, the steps to this approach is to define, spot and “identify it as a social problem” (4). Similar to the example given in the lecture slide, I had came upon an example of the relationship between mental illness
Lem had continuous delusional thoughts of Bin Laden, planning to bomb his town Canton, Ohio, and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenic. Moreover, in the film, Dr. Michael Unger mentions that when people with mental illnesses are released out of prison, they are only given one to two weeks of medications for their specific conditions. They are told upon release to follow-up with their primary physician or medical health agencies. They are assumed to have the proper judgment to continue their medications and having “the cognitive capacity to be proactive with phone calls, making appointments, and discussing how many days their medications they have left” (PBS). In reality, they cannot take care of themselves, moreover, without the proper prescribed medications. Majority of them, like Lem, are homeless living in shelters or on the streets. No money nor a health insurance to continue seeing a doctor or receiving medications they need. Here, a objectivist would see that there is indeed a fact of evidence of linked between mental illness, drugs, incarceration and
As Ethan Nadelmann states in his speech, “Why we need to end the War on Drugs,” “...the late 19th century when most of the drugs that are now illegal were legal, the principle consumers of opiates in my country and others were middle-aged white women, using them to alleviate aches and pains” (Ted Talks). Nevertheless, Nadelmann asserted some drugs became illegal due to “racist fears,” as he mentioned three examples in United States history. He had a theory as he began explaining an example of Chinese migrant who came the U.S. to work on railroads, used a drug called opium. The Chinese usage of this narcotics had led to the first drug to be outlawed and this prompted the “racist fears” of white women who are addicted to opium become sex slaves. Second example was given as he exclaimed the first law into prohibiting cocaine due to the “racist fears” of black men “...forgetting their proper place in southern society” (“Why we need to end the War on Drugs”). Lastly, the first marijuana prohibition laws were taken place with the “racist fears” of Mexicans. Furthermore, do I agree with this explanation? Yes and no. To all respect, thinking back to Introduction to United States History class I had taken in Spring of 2015, Americans