SOCIAL ISSUES Flashcards
A problem that influences many citizens within a society.
Social Issue
the state of not having enough material possessions or income for a person’s basic needs (food, clothing, & shelter)
Poverty
a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates.
Climate Change
refers to a human population that is too large to be sustained by its environment in the long term.
Human over population
any discrimination against any individual on the basis of their skin color or racial or ethnic origin
Racial discrimination
defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.
Child labor
It is pregnancy in a female under the age of 20.
Teenage pregnancy
use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate.
Bullying
Unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender
Gender inequality