SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Urie Bronfenbrenner, Psychopharmacology, Condom

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Perceptions about street-involved youth: pre-1960s delinquents, pathologized they were on the streets because of their deviant nature they did something to be on the streets. 1970s family, school counter culture movement took hold, also as the middle class youth ended up more on the street: how the failings of the family lead to street-involved youth. 1980s, 1990s child maltreatment research increasingly looked at the connections between abusive parents and street involvement. 2000s structural factors issues like chronic poverty, deinstitutionalization can lead to street- involvement: policy shift reflect the perceptions how social structures are dealing with them. Higher risk for attempted and completed suicides: sexual health, high risk of stis and hiv than youth who are housed 10-30 times greater than housed youth. Men who have sex with other men are at the highest risk: pregnancy is common poses a substantial risk factor drug use and access to health services.