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Understanding Social Problems

The document discusses social problems that arise from social change. It defines social problems as situations caused by social conditions that have harmful effects on society. Social change disrupts existing social norms and values, leading to new problems as societies adapt. Some problems mentioned include dowry, domestic violence, divorce, issues facing the elderly, and female foeticide in India. The characteristics of social problems are that they negatively impact society, deviate from ideal situations, have common origins, are socially caused and have social consequences. Causes can be individual, cultural or structural. Prominent social issues plaguing societies include crimes, unrest, intolerance, corruption and lack of employment or human rights. Social problems are interrelated and have numerous,

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Understanding Social Problems

The document discusses social problems that arise from social change. It defines social problems as situations caused by social conditions that have harmful effects on society. Social change disrupts existing social norms and values, leading to new problems as societies adapt. Some problems mentioned include dowry, domestic violence, divorce, issues facing the elderly, and female foeticide in India. The characteristics of social problems are that they negatively impact society, deviate from ideal situations, have common origins, are socially caused and have social consequences. Causes can be individual, cultural or structural. Prominent social issues plaguing societies include crimes, unrest, intolerance, corruption and lack of employment or human rights. Social problems are interrelated and have numerous,

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Problems of Social Change: Dowry, Domestic Violence,

Divorce, Problems of elderly, Female foeticide.


What is Social Problem?
Social change creates so many social problems in a functional society. The norms, values,
customs, traditions, mores and law of the society get changes as the changes are occurring inside
the society. It means that the society disturbed by external or internal forces of social change. A
changing society inevitably develops problems, either the conditions themselves change and become
unacceptable (population growth, soil erosion, and deforestation create a conservation problem) or
the society's changing values define an old condition as no longer tolerable (child labor, poverty,
racism. or sex inequality). Social problem is part of the price of social change. In the coming pages
we are discussing various dimensions created by social change.

Characteristics of Social Problems:


1. All social problems are situations which have injurious consequences for society.

2. All social problems are deviations from the ‘ideal’ situation.

3. All social problems have some common basis of origin.

4. All social problems are social in origin.

5. All social problems are caused by pathological social conditions.

6. All social problems are interconnected.

7. All social problems are social in their results, that is, they affect all sections of society.

8. The responsibility for social problems is social, that is, they require a collective approach
for their solution.

9. Social Problems occur in all societies.

Causes of Social Problems:


The causes of social problems may be three-fold but cannot be treated in isolation:

(i) Individual

(ii) Cultural
(iii)Structural

The social evils that are plaguing our society today could hardly be catalogued. They

are very uncountable in the true sense of the assertion. Prominent among them are:

juvenile delinquency; child abuse; escalating crime waves such as armed robbery;

arson; fraud; drug peddling; currency trafficking; bribery and corruption:


embezzlement of public funds; student and youth unrest; cultural violence; religious

intolerance; boundary disputes; stack dishonesty; election rigging; coups and counter

coups; lack of commitment to duty; examination malpractices; filthy and gross

indiscipline; result racketeering; disrespect for other species; gross economic

inequality; poverty; disease and hunger; widespread illiteracy; lack of gainful

employment opportunities; open injustice; ostentatious spending; abuse of authority;

hoarding of essential commodities; cheating and exploitation of the masses;

discrimination and ethnic jingoism; inordinate ambition; cultism; lack of realisation of

human potential; narrow education resulting in ill-informed citizens; civil wars;

famine; drought and unchecked desertification; human trafficking and child labour.

Three factors are important in the understanding of the causal factors in social
problems:
(1) The causal conditions are numerous.

Broadly, the potential causes of social problems found in social environment are:
(a) Contradictions in social systems,

(b) Malfunctioning of economic systems,

(c) Lack of change in religious systems, and

(d) Defective functioning of political systems.


(2) Social problems provide a strong basis of common causal factors.

(3) Social problems are interrelated and interdependent in the sense that they are cumulatively pro-
motive and provocative, that is, they foster and encourage one another.

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