PS282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Mobility, Infant Mortality, Community Psychology
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Week #3: individual in context ii january 19th, 2016. One in five inmates is over age 50. Average level of education is grade 8. 80% of offenders have addiction or substance abuse problems. 80% of federally sentenced women have been sexually abused. 31% have hepatitis c and 5% have hiv. Almost half of all offenders required mental health care in the past year: community psychology is the discussion of prevention in the hopes of changing these statistics. Tend to think of people as different until we can see what they can be. How economic inequality affects social societies: social mobility: being able to go from poor to rich; rags to riches. World"s 1% will own 50% of the world"s wealth. Last 80% is left with 5. 5: people are highly impacted by their environments and contexts, cp emphasizes the importance of the relationship between persons and contexts. Other disciplines study context too, but with less focus on individuals" interactions with others.
