Instability, social

Chronic PCP users have been likened to children with learning disabilities because of their emotional instability, social incompetence, impulsiveness, and poor attention span. 

George Kaplan has shown that US states with greater inequality have higher rates of violence, more disability, more people without health insurance, less investment in education and literacy, and poorer educational outcomes, all of which he calls structural characteristics. Moreover, the socioenvironmental characters of population areas are importantly related to the mortality rates, independent of the characters of individuals. In addition, personal and socioeconomic risk factors cluster together in areas of low income and high mortality. In a thorough local study of Alameda County, California, Kaplan examined parts of the pathways linking social class and mortality. His basic claim is that health inequality is correlated to social instability, which is in turn correlated to the lack of investment in structural characteristics, such as education, proximity of healthful food outlets, pharmacies, accessibility of transportation, etc. 

If race is so mutable, then how is its instability registered at a single historical moment or in a single group s history How is this instability manifest in social consciousness and in the political unconscious ... 

As the weak interaction is the slowest of all, it was the first to find itself unable to keep up with the rapid expansion of the Universe. The neutrinos it produces, which serve as an indicator of the weak interaction, were the first to experience decoupling, the particle equivalent of social exclusion. By the first second, expansion-cooled neutrinos ceased to interact with other matter in the form of protons and neutrons. This left the latter free to organise themselves into nuclei. Indeed, fertile reactions soon got under way between protons and neutrons. However, the instability of species with atomic masses between 5 and 8 quickly put paid to this first attempt at nuclear architecture. The two species of nucleon, protons and neutrons, were distributed over a narrow range of nuclei from hydrogen to lithium-7, but in a quite unequal way. 

The presumption that family is the best place for children is part of the same, often untested, belief that kin relations are beneficial and that kin networks are stable and willingly supportive (Cramer and McDonald 1996). These expectations do not just operate on the social plane they are embedded deep in the framework of social welfare systems everywhere too (Kelley 1993). However, the addition of one or, often, more children to the household can have a major impact on its functioning. Family strain, conflict and instability can all be part of the equation where another family member assumes the care of children (Caliandro and Hughes 1998 Cramer and McDonald 1996). It might cause problems of overcrowding and resentment as already resident children are forced to live in cramped... 

New and reemerging infectious diseases will pose a rising global health threat and will complicate US and global security over the next 20 years. These diseases will endanger US citizens at home and abroad, threaten US armed forces deployed overseas, and exacerbate social and political instability in key countries and regions in which the United States has significant interests. (NIC 2000 5)... 

Social society and poverty reduction developments low status of agricultural activities, little changes concerning acknowledgement of women s rights, poverty increase, instability of the livelihood system. 

This contradiction, however, is a merely verbal one, like lhatt)etween a tall wife and a short husband. The contrast is striking, but irrelevant -> since it provides no reason why the contradiction could not go on indefinitely. The notion of a social contradiction has the theoretical function of identifying causes of instability and change, not of locating symmetry violations. 

Whatever marijuana s past, its future will inevitably be that of decriminilization and eventual legalization, subject no doubt to the same regulatory measures as those that apply to alcohol. Whether the United States and the rest of the world faces a real threat to its social and economic stability, to progress, and to morality (however they are defined), as a result of the liberalization of marijuana (and other drags) is left to the future. If the past is any example, instability, lack of progress, and immorality will or will not occur regardless of whatever happens where marijuana is concerned. 

Disconnection and rejection - the individual has an expectation that their needs for security, safety, stability, nurturance, empathy, acceptance and respect will not be met in a consistent manner. The typical early family dynamics involve cold, rejecting, withholding, lonely, explosive, unpredictable or abusive behaviour from others. The EMS in this domain are abandonment/instability (perceived instability or unreliability of personal support), mistrust/abuse (expectation that others will hurt, abuse, humiliate, lie, manipulate, cheat, etc.), emotional deprivation (perception that one s needs for emotional support will not be met), defectiveness/ shame (the feeling that one is defective, bad, unwanted, inferior, flawed or invalid in some important respect) and social isolation/alienation (the feeling that one is different from others and isolated from any social group). 

In social dynamics, according to Prigogine, At points far from equilibrium, the deterministic equation suffice, whereas near the bifurcation point, the stochastic elements become essential . The essential difference between cultural development and cultural growth arises on account of the fact that the former corresponds to instabilities in which stochastic elements play a basic role, while the latter corresponds to deterministic developments. 

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