Sociological Imagination

'Schemes are full of pregnant teenagers, unemployed, semi-literate thugs on benefits. They are all a bunch of wasters!'
Housing schemes are said to be a hotbed for pregnent teens, unemployed and semi-literate thugs. In a way this is true mainly because this is the only place they can go they may not be able to afford anywhere else. It is unfair to say the people born and raised in these schemes are destined for these lives.
Pregnant teenagers may of been kicked out their houses and without as job couldnt afford their own place, so the schemes are their only option besides the streets. The same aplies to the unemployed: they may not have the grades or skills to get a job so their only option is to live somewhere the concil gives them. Semi-literate thugs on benefits on the other hand suggests they are victims of the area they have been raised in an place where acting in this way is socially acceptable (Like in Emile Durkheim structural theory).
In some cases teenage pregnancies and the unemployed could be seen as a victim of circumstance: Protection failed no matter how hard you try or there may be no jobs in the area so you become unemployed. Although there are also those in this group who may not of taking these neccessary steps to prevent pregnancy or get a job.