Looting in London
1) The difference between looting and rioting is that looting doesn’t involve physical violence and looting involves a wider range of people and is so to speak less dangerous to your health.
2) Define these words:
· Social exclusion: a concept used to characterize contemporary forms of social disadvantage.
· Disregard: to pay no attention to, ignore, to treat without proper respect or attentiveness.
· Social norms: the accepted behaviors within a society or group. (Here England)
· High-unemployment: when many people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks.
· Criminologist: someone who studies the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes and control of criminal behavior.
· Opportunism: the conscious policy and practice of taking selfish advantage of circumstances, with little regard for principles.
· Consumerism: a social and economic order that is based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in ever greater amounts.
3) Yes, I thing this can happen anywhere in the world. Because unemployment occurs here as well. I also think that no matter where you are there will be people who, misunderstand me correct, needs to get anger out and who are sly, that will take advantage if a situation like this would occur.
4) - I think that it says that the social conditions in England are bad and poor. They need to change and turn it around so people will have fewer reasons to conduct these actions.
- This may be connected to the traditional class system because the system sort of gives a “better” life to the ones who are born into the higher class and it is harder for the state to provide for all of them who are “poor.”
