Elderly Abuse and Young people Joining Gangs
As society progresses, there are multiple social issue that are now being identified as problems. As we know as society continuously changes, what’s considered deviant and normative behavior changes as well, and so different social problems arise. Two instances of that is, the increased interest in elderly abuse and the understanding behind the reasoning to why young people are joining gangs.
Beginning with elderly abuse, there is a new focus on protecting the elderly –especially with the raise of the Beanpole Family structure resulting in the Sandwich Generation. Traditionally, the most common family structure looked like a pyramid. A pyramid symbolizes a family where younger generations are larger than the dwindling older generations before it. However with the aging population …show more content…
As the stress takes a toll on the individuals (sometimes just a single individual) within the second generation, it can result negatively on the elder generation, situations such as elderly abuse and neglect are likely to arise.
Another social issues which is now being labeled a problem is young people joining gangs. Sociologists have multiple concepts as to why young people join gangs, and I see that the Strain Theory and Differential Association Theory are the two sociological concepts closely related to why people may join gangs. As a quick recap: Strain Theory is a sociological concept that reasons that people are driven to deviant because they couldn’t achieve their goals otherwise. Differential Association Theory is a sociological concept that reasons that people learn behaviors from people that you interact with. From the article ‘Why do young people join gangs?” the writer Glenn Lowson asked a couple of teens, the question as to why young people join gangs. In the responses
As society progresses, there are multiple social issue that are now being identified as problems. As we know as society continuously changes, what’s considered deviant and normative behavior changes as well, and so different social problems arise. Two instances of that is, the increased interest in elderly abuse and the understanding behind the reasoning to why young people are joining gangs.
Beginning with elderly abuse, there is a new focus on protecting the elderly –especially with the raise of the Beanpole Family structure resulting in the Sandwich Generation. Traditionally, the most common family structure looked like a pyramid. A pyramid symbolizes a family where younger generations are larger than the dwindling older generations before it. However with the aging population …show more content…
As the stress takes a toll on the individuals (sometimes just a single individual) within the second generation, it can result negatively on the elder generation, situations such as elderly abuse and neglect are likely to arise.
Another social issues which is now being labeled a problem is young people joining gangs. Sociologists have multiple concepts as to why young people join gangs, and I see that the Strain Theory and Differential Association Theory are the two sociological concepts closely related to why people may join gangs. As a quick recap: Strain Theory is a sociological concept that reasons that people are driven to deviant because they couldn’t achieve their goals otherwise. Differential Association Theory is a sociological concept that reasons that people learn behaviors from people that you interact with. From the article ‘Why do young people join gangs?” the writer Glenn Lowson asked a couple of teens, the question as to why young people join gangs. In the responses