Assignment On:_ ‘’ Social Problems of Our Society and Applications of Social

Psychology Today’’

Submitted to:_

Mam Sana Bashir

Submitted by:_

Name………..Zahra Naz

Roll No……….04

Study Programme:_

BS-BioTechnology………3rd semester

Study Course:_

Social Psychology

Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology,

B.Z.U., Multan.

Social problem:_ A social problem is a problem that relates to society's perception of a person or a group of persons' life, moral character, occupation, etc.. Different cultures have different perceptions and what may be "normal" behavior in one society may be a significant social issue in another society.

Social psychology is can deal with these problems by different methods like

Survey method Counseling Observations Research method Competative influence Examples, etc.

Some of the most common social issue are Alcoholism/drug abuse Caste system Child labor Dowry demand Illiteracy Inequality or biasness Jealousy Materialism No education for girls Street crimes Terrorism Unemployment, etc..

Alcoholism/drug abuse There was a time in history when most of the actors n actresses appear on screen with cigarette in hand.This implied that smoking was cool.As a result,youngers and even kids started smoking.Well,an awareness to danger increased,cool image of smoking disappear.Unfortunately,the same can not be said about alcohol and drugs.Media and othem communication or entertaining means are showing both these are cool.

Effect on individual and society

Alcoholism or drug addiction affects the body organs of addicted individual.He becomes susceptible to diseases and looses its attention towards his work and loss his confidence. Addicted person becomes a problem for society.As he can not perform his duties as well as can not continue his relations in good manner.He only thinks of his self.So,society also get affected by drug usage by people.

Social Psychologist and alcoholism

Psychologist can deal with addicted person to reduce drug abuse.He can do so by knowing about individual family,relations,activities and reasons behind his attraction towards drinking or drug use.Then by counseling with people,psychologist can convince them for getting rid of drug abuse.Psychologist can talk to person’s family to provide comfortable environment for the addicted person so that he can reduce his attraction for drugs.

Caste system

Caste system means biasness of people towards different castes,thinking that one caste is good or superior and other ones are not good or inferior.Caste system arises due to low literacy level in society and narrow mindedness of people.

Effects on individuals and society

Caste system affects both individuals and society a lot.This caste system divides people in many groups and internal war in a society begins.A few castes think their people best and consider only the people of their own caste.In this way,stron conflicts arise and cause disorganization in the society.And when the people are not united,society has opponent groups then it becomes so

difficult for a country or nation to stand in progress race with successful nations and countries.

Social psychologist and caste system

Social psychologist can deal with the narrow minded people promoting caste system by counseling with them and by showing them examples of unbiased people and societies.The psychologist can change thinking of caste system following people by telling and convincing them about importance of education and points that they should not follow caste system.This caste system can make people and even groups strong opponent and this oppositness can creat a lot of troubles for society and other individuals.

Child labor

Society viewd children as able bodies that could do work just as or if better than adults.Children could work for much longer and more difficult conditions than adults for less pay.That is why,mostly people utilize energy of innocent children for less wealth use as pay for labor.This action shows no sympathy and empathy of cruel people for children.This act of them is,no doubt,un ethical and a cruel act.The people who are in favour of child labor are the people who think of their selves only and no consider the small age and innocence of beautiful children.

Effect on individuals and society

In more ways than one child labor brings many consequences on the children who work. Children begin to lose their childhood and are rushed into adulthood, therefore Child labor leads into early marriage.This lead to many family issues and social problems.Children are forced to work

and help provide with the family that they are likely to drop out of school and continue working full time. The lives of these children are being harmed and even thought they are helping currently with money for the family, the consequences are much deeper.In this way,society looses future educated people only because of increased child labor.Social psychologists and child labor Child labor has emerged due to different reasons: poor economy, uneducated authoritative figures (parents or guardians), poor education in the country. Therefore, in order to solve this social problem, there is a need to create a combined solution or solutions that will decrease child labor, and hopefully eliminate child labor completely as time goes.Social psychologist can deal with people to reduce child labor favour.He can do so by counseling with people and telling them about the consequences of children working as labor.The psychologist can make landlords and people who are in favour of child labor to make opportunities for educating people and children instead of utilizing the power of children for less money expenditure.

Materialism

We live in a society that promotes materialism and so we perpetuate this particular malady by instilling bad habits into our children. We teach our children that the measure of success and happiness in life is how much stuff you have. Kids naturally want things especially if their friends have something similar. Unfortunately, there seems to be little restraint on accompanying guidance as we go about this.

Essentially, we provide our kids with whatever they want that is within our financial ability to do so. The concept of “earning” what you get or the idea that something “you don’t

need” seem to have been lost and discarded. We have a mentality of getting what we want and when we want it that has been ingrained in us since childhood. The unfortunate result is that there are devastating consequences for such continued behavior later in life.effect on individuals and society

When a few people can bring each and everything to their children and other people can not.then a state of poor and rich arise.This difference brings people a far away from each other.The children with no expensive things loose their confidence and they ask their parents for things like that of others.And when people an not afford these things in their legal earning,they adopt evil’s way and become decates of thieves for earning lot of money and to fulfil the desires of their children.Hence,a great unsecure and unstable condition is maintained in society and society moves towards state of disorganization.

Social psychology and materialism

Social psychologist can convince people to minimize their expenses so that each and everyone can keep his family happy.By counseling,people can be made known of problems and consequences which are brought about due to extra spending and preference of wealth over relations and people.

No education for girls

"Is there a need to get our girls educated? Whats the use?". These are questions frequently asked by the educationists who go to rural areas to spread awareness about the importance of getting the females educated. Girls in rural areas have to face many cultural and social problems.One of the most deplorable aspects is that in some places, particularly northern tribal areas, the education of girls is strictly prohibited on religious grounds.This is a gross misinterpretation of Islam,which like other religions urges men and women both to seek knowledge.

Effect on individuals and society

To educate a girls means to educate a family and house.So,when a girls is kept uneducated,she can not properly perform her duties as she could do with education.Boys are educated frequently and girls are preferred to stay at homes for domestic works only.This inequality creats a conflict and many problems arise due to biased thinking of people.Girls can not fight for their rights.And the society becomes disorganized.

Social psychologists and no education for girls

People who are not in favour of education for girls do so because of less education and narrow mindedness.They do not trust on girls in many matters and they thought girls at low status than boys.Social psychologist can counsel with them in a way to convince them to educate their girls and show no partiality for both girls and boys.He can convince them by quoting religious verses and hadiths as well as examples from the religious histories.

Unemployment

Unemloyment occurs when people are without work and actively seeking work.The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force. During periods of recession an economy usually experiences a relatively high unemployment rate.It is due to economical,social as well as laziness.

During a long period of unemployment, workers can lose their skills, causing a loss of human capital. Being unemployed can also reduce the life expectancy of workers by about seven years.

Effects on individuals and society

High and persistent unemployment, in which economic inequality increases, has a negative effect on

subsequent long-run economic growth. Unemployment can harm growth not only because it is a waste of resources, but also because it generates redistributive pressures and subsequent distortions, drives people to poverty, constrains liquidity limiting labor mobility, and erodes self-esteem promoting social dislocation, unrest and conflicts. Unemployed individuals are unable to earn money to meet financial obligations. Failure to pay mortgage payments or to pay rent may lead to homelessness through foreclosure. An economy with high unemployment is not using all of the resources, specifically labour, available to it. Since it is operating below its production possibility frontier. it could have higher output if all the workforce were usefully employed. However, there is a trade-off between economic efficiency and unemployment: if the frictionally unemployed accepted the first job they were offered, they would be likely to be operating at below their skill level, reducing the economy's efficiency.

Social psychologist and unemployment

Social psychologist can make unemployed people employee by giving them certain activities to keep them involve in useful work.He can counsel the person’s family to understand the condition of of person and cause of his unemployment.Psychologist can make the person to share his experiences and reasons for no working.These reasons could be lack of confidence,laziness,or unfair means of earning.These reasons may be due to unstable economy of a country.Social psychologist can make him to perform his duty well by pondering upon the reason.

Hence,it is clear from the above discussion that social issues can be solved easily by consulting a social psychologists.

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