Oros O. Social reasons for physical violence among senior teens.

This thesis is aimed to conceptualize the social reasons for physical violence among the senior teens. Basic approaches in research of violence as a social phenomenon, main groups of children depending on the features of displays of physical violence and expectations from application against others are determined. Social reasons for physical violence among children caused by domestic and situational reasons are determined by the permissive orientation of their activity. An empiric study of record of children is undertaken in the District Departments of Police in Matters of Children, taken into custody by the Transcarpathian Police in Ukraine. A new model of the conceptualisation for definition of social factors of physical violence among adolescents is offered. The main conceptual coordinates of research are defined in a wider social context, and the boundaries of it are determined by the thesaurus: interest - violence - legitimacy. The procedures of increasing relevance of sociological research, indicators of belonging of children to specific social subcultures and their most probable expectancies are determined.