Social issues are matters that can be explained only by factors outside an individual's control and immediate social environment which affect many individuals in a society. For example, a serial murderer who wreaks havoc in an area for a number of months or years is certainly a problem, but this is not a social issue; it is part of the larger social issue of crime. Common social issues include poverty, violence, justice, human rights (suppression of), equality (or discrimination), and crime, and usually revolve around conflicting viewpoints and tensions between people who take different stances. It can also be called a community problem because it is known to concern a community of people. The social environment is the direct influence of a group of individuals and their contributions to this environment, as both groups and individuals who are in frequent communication with each other within their cultural or socio-economical strata, which create role identity(-ies) and guide the individuals self (sociology... Young people interacting within an ethnically diverse society. ... 1)A community is a social group of organisms sharing an environment, normally with shared interests. ...

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Abuser redirects here. ... Teenage pregnancy is defined as an underaged girl becoming pregnant with a baby. ... A homeless person in Paris. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... This article is about discrimination in the social science context. ... Ethics (via Latin from the Ancient Greek moral philosophy, from the adjective of ēthos custom, habit), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of values and customs of a person or group. ... J.L. Urban, statue of Lady Justice at court building in Olomouc, Czech Republic Justice concerns the proper ordering of things and persons within a society. ... A peace dove, widely known as a symbol for peace, featuring an olive branch in the doves beak. ... A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows what he found. ... Manifestations Slavery · Racial profiling · Lynching Hate speech · Hate crime · Hate groups Genocide · Holocaust · Pogrom Ethnocide · Ethnic cleansing · Race war Religious persecution · Gay bashing Movements Discriminatory Aryanism · Neo-Nazism · Supremacism Kahanism Anti-discriminatory Abolitionism · Civil rights · Gay rights Womens/Universal suffrage · Mens rights Childrens rights · Youth rights Disability... Social equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect, minimally at least in voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, and property rights. ... Social integration is a term used in sociology and several other social sciences. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Because racism carries connotations of race-based bigotry, prejudice, violence, oppression, stereotyping or discrimination, the term has varying and often hotly contested definitions. ... Professional social workers are concerned with social problems, their causes, their solutions and their human impacts. ... This article or section includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... This is a list of terms in sociology. ...

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