Social Problems Assignment

Ignorance is to know even though necessary information is present, because that information has been willfully refused or disregarded. Nescience is to not know because knowledge was absent or unattainable. We wouldn’t have justice or injustice without acts of ignorance or nescience. Today, ignorance and nescience are a normal part of life.

There is a lot of ignorance and injustice in the world today and I have experienced it before myself. The patterns that I have experienced for myself and have witnessed were acts of authority figures abusing their power, and acts of social neglect. I would want to know why people treat each other that way. Do some police officers think they are more superior to regular citizens because of their authoritative title? How are they trained and in what fields of knowledge and types of education is required for their job? How often does police brutality and abuse of authority happen and go unnoticed or without justice? What other types of authority can a victim of police abuse turn to especially when they have low-income? What are the officer’s justifications for acting the way they did? How can we tell if they were lying about their abusive actions? Do people have a hard time believing victims of police abuse? Do they feel remorse for their actions?

According to the textbook, police officers fall into the institutional category of politics which provides a means of governing members of a society. Social pathology and social disorganization are two other structural functional theory’s which describe why…