Sociological Imagination

Unit 1 IP: Sociological Imagination

Patricia Sellers

AIU Online

Unit 1 IP: Sociological Imagination

Homelessness is growing every single day in today’s world. This societal issue is on the upsurge and has so far not been resolved. In what way does existence of being a homeless individual disturb civilization and in what way does civilization affect the homeless? In the year 2011, the conclusion sum for the United States Homeless rate was 636,017. Homelessness moves countless dissimilar individuals of all ages, gender, color, ethnics, and race. Homeless can affect an individual’s intellectual and physical health, it sometimes has an influence on the corruption rate; also it sometimes has a great influence on the taxes that are funded by citizens.

An individual that is homeless does not have the essential assets to get the required treatment when they come to be ill. When an individual is homeless, the mental health too arises to alternate. That being comes to be emotionally distressed, sad, uneasy, and lonely and progresses a sense of terror about civilization. In the United States employments are declining, price rises and the complete physical variations in the economy have caused the growth of individuals being homeless. People lived from employed full time respectable compensating occupations to either being jobless or the times and salaries being cut in half on the job. The mental health of an individual at a blue state of mind will result to drug misuse, heavy drinking and occasionally suicide.

Homelessness may lead to an escalation in the crime rate. If and when a homeless person commits an offense it is commonly shoplifting to nourish their starvation or wandering in spaces to attempt to stay warm. In more or less