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Social Problems.
When people live as close together as they do in urban settlements, some social problems will eventually occur. Differences between social classes and pressure from the environment may cause social disorder. People often get problems when they feel that they are socially incompetent or that they have failed to realize their dreams, when they feel isolated or just happen to know the wrong people. For instance, social problems occur when people are drawn into the swamp of drugs. Moreover poverty is a significant cause of crime, hopelessness and feelings of hatred towards the wealthy people in the city.
Cultural diversity and differences within the social classes in urban societies may cause disorder among people. Poverty for instance, feeds hostility towards political authority and those better off and is one of the reasons why young people commit crimes and why many poor people are addicted to drugs. As a result of, for instance, the pressure to have a career among the rich, or gang fights among the poor, individuals may experience personal disorder and social deviation. In the lower classes rates of schizophrenia are high while in the middle and upper classes rates of manic depression are high. The social deviation is also reflected in the crimes committed in the different social classes. Among the lower classes crimes such as burglary and other violent crimes are usual, while among the middle classes adult crimes involve fraud and embezzlement. Sexual crimes such as rape, child molesting and incest are more usual in the lower classes than in the middle and upper classes. As for the cultural differences, people from different cultures may have trouble understanding each other and because of that conflicts rise between them. An intercultural marriage for instance may end in trouble in one way or another; a divorce or maybe even a child kidnapped and taken to another country.

sorcerers and witches
In sorcerers and witches in Russia believed already during a pre-Christian epoch. In the south of Russia considered that witches are young widows, and so beautiful that for a glance of fine eyes it is not a pity to give a life. In a midland of Russia are slovenly, thick women with a cataract on an eye, in northern provinces - the withered shaggy old women. The main distinctive feature of witches - a small tail which they hide from extraneous eyes. The infallible method to understand, who before you, the witch or the usual woman, - to call her in a bath. If will refuse to wash in the presence of other women, being afraid to find out the tail, means, precisely, a witch. Witches come to church, but they do not ask ся and do not confess. At night witches fly out through a pipe of the log hut on a broomstick. Sorcerers, on superstition peasants, it is elderly fat tall man with long nails and a dense shaggy beard. They look a sight - frowningly. The log hut of the sorcerer costs on the brink of village. In it one window, and a log hut was lop-sided. Day and night a door on a lock. The sorcerer carries a short fur coat, подпоясанный a belt, in the winter and in the summer, even in a heat.
In Klyazma in 1690 peasant Eudoxia have burnt that it ostensibly milked dry cows and filled murrain on hens. 1730 the Senate has published the decree in which it was said that witches and sorcerers should be burnt on a fire. In 1899 in the Eagle the woman by name of Tatyana as whom considered as a witch, has threatened the neigbour that will transform her into a pig. That has called men, and they have begun to beat Tatyana and have stripped naked to find a tail. Despite lacking a tail, Tatyana have connected and have brought to volost to the land chief. That has told that the capital heads in sorcerers and witches do not order to believe, and have sent men back home. Those have started to ask pardons from Tatyana, and also the promise not to milk dry cows have demanded and not to fill with damage. On that also have reconciled.