soc 112
SOC 112 CONCEPT MAP TEMPLATE
Fill in the center circle with your chosen social issue. Then, in the appropriately labeled circle, list each of your examples. Indicate whether the relationship between each example and the central issue is positive, negative, or strained, using colors, words, or symbols.
All Examples in Red colour indicates a negative relationship.
Existing Social Condition 1: Unemployment is very high with substance abusers. Many companies today are turning to drug screens to weed out abusers (Hawkins et al., 1992). Also it has been realised that people under the influence of drug have a hard time keeping employment for not being able to function.
Existing Social Condition 2: Crime rates especially where I live have risen due to drug seekers, as they are looking for things to steal, in return pawn and make more money to buy there next hit of drug of their choice (Hubbard et al., 1989). It is believed that multiracial people are more likely to suffer from drug abuse due to not suitable into one race over the other and having depression which leads to drinking.
Social Inequalities 1: Lower class people are more likely to suffer not because they are actuary poor but because they have less resources to use than those in upper class (Hawkins et al., 1992). For Example: Not having enough money to buy food and you are malnourished. So one drinking effects his body differently than someone who can eat well.
Social Inequalities 2. Drug abusers also tend to spend all money in drugs and therefore at the end of day they are not able to educate their children (Hawkins et al., 1992). They cannot afford school fees, not that they are poor but because they have spent all the finances in drugs.
Cultural Beliefs and Biases 1: In their minds (Drug Abusers) they are normal to drink heavily or be high all the time. Sober people are not normal to some of them (Hubbard et al., 1989). So they view those from different ethnicity as different. Some even try to imagine that others from other ethnicity should not live or have no value in their lives.
Cultural Beliefs and Biases 2: In its most basic form, marital status shows whether a person is married or single. This sometimes is extended to include other descriptors, such as widowed, divorced, cohabiting and civil union, which are all sometimes seen as single from a lawful standpoint (Hawkins et al., 1992). Since the alcohol and any drug addiction affects both women and men, it is then experienced across a range of marital statuses. Many studies have been carried out to find trends in alcohol and drug dependence within married and single groups, and it has been found that an individual’s marital status can actuary affect the likelihood of them sinking victim to alcohol addiction.
Social Roles 1: Drinking alcohol is a part of culture for most people, as are conversations among parents and children concerning its risks and potential benefits (Alcohol, 1980). However, the information about alcohol can be seem contradictory. Alcohol may affect people differently at different stages in their life small amounts have health benefits for certain adults, but for adolescents and children, alcohol when in excess it can interfere with normal brain development of children’s. Alcohol’s conflicting effects and father and mothers’ changing role in their children’s lives as they grow and seek more independence can make talking about alcohol as challenge. Parents sometimes have trouble setting concrete family policies for alcohol use. And they also find it hard to communicate with their children and adolescents about alcohol-related issues.
Social Roles 2: Drug abusers are unable to manage their homes (Alcohol, 1980). For family and friends of drug- or alcohol-addicted individuals, addressing the addiction is the hardest aspects of helping to seek treatment.
References
Alcohol, D. A. (1980). Mental Health Administration. Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Youth Suicide: Vols. 1, 4.
Hawkins, J. D., Catalano, R. F., & Miller, J. Y. (1992). Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: implications for substance abuse prevention. Psychological bulletin, 112(1), 64.
Hubbard, R. L., Marsden, M. E., Rachal, J. V., Harwood, H. J., Cavanaugh, E. R., & Ginzburg, H. M. (1989). Drug abuse treatment: A national study of effectiveness. University of North Carolina Press.
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