Drug Abuse
Alcohol dependence, characterized by the symptoms of craving, loss of control, physical dependence, and tolerance.
What is alcoholism?
The use of race or ethnicity by law enforcement consciously or unconsciously as a basis of judgment for criminal suspicion.
What is racial profiling?
The ongoing rise in the global average temperature.
What is global warming?
The unlawful use of force to intimidate or coerce compliance with a particular set of beliefs; can be either domestic or foreign.
What is terrorism?
Conscious, collective, organized attempts to bring about or resist large-scale change in the social order.
What are social movements?
Physical or psychological dependence on a drug or medication.
What is drug addiction?
Criminal acts that involve force or the threat of force against others and include aggravated assault, murder, rape, and robbery.
What are violent crimes?
A catastrophe that threatens or overwhelms an area’s capacity to get people to safety, treat casualties, protect infrastructure, and control panic.
What is a megadisaster?
The systematic targeting [killing] of members of an ethnic or a religious group.
What is genocide?
Sociology that promotes a dialogue outside the academy with a variety of public audiences.
What is public sociology?
The use of any drug or medication for unintended purposes, which can lead to clinically significant impairment or distress.
What is drug abuse?
Crimes that are minor offenses, punishable by a fine or less than one year’s imprisonment.
What are misdemeanors?
The perceptible climate trends over time; such as global warming.
What is climate change?
An overthrow of the existing government or political structure.
What is a revolution?
A perceived gap between what people expect and what they actually get.
What is relative deprivation?
Removal from control of the law.
What is legalization?
A youth who engages in criminal behavior.
What is a juvenile delinquent?
Study of the interactions between our physical and natural environment and our social organization and social behavior.
What is environmental sociology?
The systematic targeting [killing] of specific groups because of their political beliefs.
What is politicide?
Attempts to bring about limited social change by working within the existing system.
What are reform movements?
The learning of behaviors and norms from the groups we have contact with.
What is differential association?
Crimes committed by someone of high social status, for financial gain, or in a particular organization.
What is white-collar crime?
Abandoned or underused industrial or commercial properties where hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants are present or potentially present.
What are brownfields?
Mass destruction of ecosystems.
What is ecocide?
Attempts to create fundamental change in the system itself.
What are revolutionary social movements?