Social Problems in the Society

Social Problems in Societies

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Social Problems in Societies.

Social problems are the general conditions and behaviors that manifest directly or indirectly causing an effect among the members of society. They are adverse problems that relate to the moral values of humankind. They arise due to the differences in opinions races, social status, living styles, and etcetera. Each society does face different social problems from the other (Häuberer, 2014). There are various classes of social issues in the community among them including, changes in climate, poverty, overpopulation and politics as illustrated below.

Climate change is the state in which the weather patterns are distributed for a prolonged period ranging from decades to millions of years. Theoretical models are used by scientists to predict climatic conditions for the future (V & Pal, 2017). As a social problem, climatic changes caused by human activities such as deforestation, pollution that at long run affect the weather patterns. Taking global warming and the greenhouse effect as an illustration of this, it is evident that they cause environmental pollution that faces most of the societies worldwide. It also causes an increase in the magnitude of the heat reaching the earth's surface in the form of rays that cause illness as cancer of the skin (NT, 2017). When the climatic patterns changes, this leads to an adverse effect to the economic activities such as agricultural products that may later cause poverty to the society depending on agriculture for food production Poverty is the situation that people may undergo the inability to cater for their basic human needs. It becomes tough for the affected individuals as they face the inadequacy of the basic human needs such as clean water, shelter, clothing, quality education, and proper healthcare. Poverty can be either absolute or relative. In the case of relative poverty, one has lesser resources when compared to the rest of society. Absolute poverty is the situation of having no resources (Werner, 2015). As a societal social problem, it makes the economic growth and development slow as the level of dependency ratio is very high, it builds up stress amongst the people, and there arises a common low standard of living within the members of the community.

Overpopulation is the situation in which the number of species in a particular community tends to be more than the capacity that the ecological niche can sustain. It is amongst the main social problems that face human beings in the world. Whenever there is a massive population within a particular area, this causes a rise in social, economic issues such as unemployment, insecurity, overcrowded housing, and land subdivisions. The available resources become overexploited, and the residents face hunger in the case where the government cannot deduce the appropriate remedies for the problem (Kuo, 2012).

Politics is the process by which individuals exercise their decision-making technique to exert power and authority to the entire members of the group. Not only in governments where the political impact is experienced by also informed organizations or associations such as companies, schools and religious gatherings that have a specific management structure. It is a social problem as those who are in power do not put a full consideration that caters to those who are below them (Fish, 2016). An example is from the developing countries where those in power use the positions for their selfish gains, by involving themselves in corruption, thereby misusing the public resources.

The above are among the social problems that affect most societies in the world. The members of the community face difficulties whenever they find themselves as the victims. Therefore, whenever any form of social problem arises, some remedies can be implemented to prevent or stop such situations. For instance, where the people engage in acts as deforestation and corruption, strict policies should be stipulated and put in to practice for the well-being of the members of the society. This will enable the communities to enjoy a quality life.

References

Fish, W. (2016). "Post-Truth" Politics and Illusory Democracy. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 14(3), 211-213.

Häuberer, J. (2014). Social Capital in Voluntary Associations. European Societies, 16(4), 570-593.

Kuo, G. (2012). Mega Crisis? Overpopulation is the Problem. World Futures Review, 4(3), 23-32.

NT, A. (2017). Globalization and its impact on the Environment. Scoffed Journal of Global Warming, 1(3).

V, D., & Pal, B. (2017). Climate variability and changes in the local climate. Weather.

Werner, T. (2015). The War on Poverty and the Racialization of "Hillbilly" Poverty: Implications for Poverty Research. Journal of Poverty, 19(3), 305-323.