Anomie

In the seventeen years between 2000 and 2017, the homelessness rate in the US has declined from 10.5% to 8.5%. In this essay, the following three of the ten sociological ideas are used to interpret this decline in the US homelessness rate: (1) social and structural influences, (2) social and cultural capitals, and (3) consensus and conflict perspectives. Firstly, the decline of US homelessness rate is the result of individual, social and structural influences. The nature theory in Sociology…

Although there is not an omniscient, single definition of transnational criminal organizations, many of the popular definitions share characteristics. The diction of transnational criminal organizations highlights the word transnational, meaning across country boundaries. Therefore, these organizations have to be active and operational across multiple countries. For example, a gang member commits a crime in one country from the orders of a leader in another. Upward mobility is essential for…

personal communications, Sep 28th 2016). For children and teenager their parents or teacher tell them to get in a line so they would remember and follow the rule. Following social norms is important, because without norms the social group would go anomie, which means that the society has no strong collective anymore. For example, if no one gets in line in the restaurant and everyone is taking the wrong orders, the restaurant is going to be messed up. Additionally, the cashier usually asks the…

use meth. These factors include being in rural areas where big companies are taking over, leading to loss of independence, wage reductions, and outmigration. Another significant factor is the increasing prevalence of hopelessness and despair. This anomie becomes an issue in working class people, in addition to those already poor. Meth use becomes a coping mechanism and an escape from this reality. It may also be an attempt to regain status. Meth use is labeled the biggest drug problem in the…

1. What is meant by the term drug abuse? Drug abuse is the over consumption or excessive use of an addictive substance. Drug abuse occurs when the user consumes an excessive amount of an addictive substance, such as alcohol, prescription medication, street drugs, etc. for some type of reaction. The consumption of an illicit or prescribed drug becomes compulsive, and eventually leads to the addiction. This type of addiction is also referred to as drug abuse or drug dependency. The body…

Introduction English is regarded as the most influential language globally, with more non-native speakers around the world than native speakers (Park and Wee, 2012). There are over 400 million speakers of English, and although there are a few languages with more speakers in the world, those languages owe their numbers to mother-tongue speakers. Whereas, English owes its prominence to how widely adopted it is in other countries, and the special status it enjoys in global affairs. Since the…

process two stages or factors; push factors are those that make a person want to travel and it mainly social psychological motives. Then, pull factors are external factors that affect where a person travels to fulfil needs or desires. He suggested that anomie and ego enhancement were the basic underlining reasons for travel.  Followed by Dann’s push and pull motives, Crompton (1979) went further and managed to identified nine motives for travel which is consist of seven push and two pull…

Introduction Crime is a highly complex phenomenon that changes across both time and cultures. Activities that are legal in one country may be illegal in another country. As cultures change over time, behaviours that were once criminalised may not be criminalised anymore. Most people consider crime as deviant behaviour however not all crimes are deviant and not all deviant behaviour is criminal. Crime is the behaviour that breaks the formal laws of a given society. The punishment of crime will be…

In the United States we have a very diverse culture, each day a child is exposed to a different environment. The environment that we are raised in not only plays into perspective to how see life but also its our culture. In some communities joining a gang has become a norm to be apart in, and not being a in a gang is frown upon for example in 2004 you could not walk the streets of Highland Park with out being asked who are you associated with. In a community where death rates have been at an all…

Many Australian people experience mental illness; however, according to the ABS (2013), Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are three times more likely to develop mental illness than the non-indigenous population. Mental illness among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generation survivors is even greater (Dudgeon, Walker, Scrine, Shepherd, Calma, & Ring, 2014). Suicide rates within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are also twice as high,…