Social Problems

One who causes and solutions lie within the individual and his or her immediate environment

One who causes and solutions lie OUTSIDE the individual and the immediate environment

A sociological theoory that focuses on social systems and how their independent parts maintain order

Parts are: Institution, Norms, Roles, and Values

A collective pattern of dealing with a basic social function

Shared expectations about behaviors

The behavior assoicated with a particular position in the social structure

Things preferred because they are defined as having worth

Where society is a system of diverse groups, with conflicting values and interests, vying with each other for power, wealth, and other valued resources. Focuses on inequalities.

Society is an arena of interacting individuals who behave in accord with their definitions of situations and who create shared messages as they interact.

Parts are: Attitudes and Ideology

A predisposition about something in ones environment

A set of ideas that explain or justify some aspect of social reality or life.

• Individual levelss
• Group levels
• Social levels
• Global levels

The process of carefully attending to spoken or weritten information in order to evaluate its validity

Overgeneralizing; to use one, two, or three cases to support an entire agrument

The agrument that things could have not worked out any other way than which they did

Making something abstract into something concrete

Agrument by attacking the opponent personally rather than dealing with the issue. Did not have enough facts.

Agrument by appealing to popular prejudices or passions. Convincing others that we are correct.

The use of conclusions to support the assumptions that were nessesary to make the conclusions.

Agrument by an illegitimate appeal to authority

The assertion that what is true of the part is nessarily true of the whole

Something that does not follow logically from what has precided itl

Repeated use of a drug or alcohol to the point of periodic or chronic intoxic ation that is determental to the user or society

Improper use of drugs or alcohol to the degree that the consquences are defined as detrimental to the user or society

• Craving or compulsion to drink
• Loss of control to limit drinking
• Physical dependence when drinking stops
• Tolerance- The need to drink increasingly greater amounts to get high

Acts that have victims who suffer loss of property or some kind of physical harm

• Murder and non-negligent manslaughter- willful killing of a person
• Aggravated Assault- an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe bodily injury
• Forcible Rape- Defined as actual or attempted sexual intercouse through the use or force or threat of force
• Robbery- the use of force or threat of force to take something of value

• Burglary- the unlawful entry of a structure to committ a felony or theft
• Larceny Theft- unlawful taking or stealing of property or articles without the use of force, violence, or fraud
• Motor Vehicle Theft- both actual and attempted theft of any motor vehicle
• Arson- willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn with or without intent to defraud

In 1899, in Chicago, Illinois

• Youthful Offenders- those who engage in behavior for which adults can be tried in criminal court
• Status Offenders- those who violate juvenile court code rather than the criminal code. (ex: runaways and breaking curfew)
• Minors in Need of Care- those who are neglected or abused and are in need of the courts care

Use of force to kill, injure, or abuse others

A widening gape between what people want and what they get leads to a revoluntionary situation

3rd Grade

Position in the social system based on economic resources, power, education, prestige, and lifestyle

To maintain social order

Alcohol related defect

Helped establish the juvenile court system

The resources used to measure crime stastics; published by the FBI