Republic of the Philippines

MARIKINA POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE

Shoe Ave. cor. Juan Chanyungco St. Sta. Elena Marikina City
GRADUATE SCHOOL PROGRAM
2nd Sem. S.Y. 2019-2020

Discussant: MARA FRANZESKA M. ARTYMIAK Title: SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Course: MED-5:30-8:30(T) Subject: SOCIO-CULTURAL
FOUNDATIONSOF EDUC.

SOCIAL PROBLEMS

A social problem is a social condition or pattern of behavior that has negative consequences for
individuals, our social world, or our physical world. It refers to social conditions that disrupt or
damage society. Those social problems that are evidently felt adversely affect our everyday life.

ORIGIN OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS

1. TRANSFEORMATION PROCESS - Stage 1 is defined as a transformation process: taking a

private trouble and transforming it into a public issue. In this stage, an influential group,
activists, or advocates call attention to and define an issue as a social problem.
2. LEGITIMIZATION PROCESS - Stage 2 is the legitimization process: formalizing the manner
in which the social problem or complaints generated by the problem are handled. For
example, an organization or public policy could be created to respond to the condition.
An existing organization, such as a federal or state agency, could also be charged with
taking care of the situation. In either instance, these organizations begin to legitimize
the problem by creating and implementing a formal response.
3. CONFLICT STAGE - Stage 3 is a conflict stage, when Stage 2 routines are unable to
address the problem. During Stage 3, activists, advocates, and victims of the problem
experience feelings of distrust and cynicism toward the formal response organizations.
Stage 3 activities include readjusting the formal response system: renegotiating
procedures, reforming practices, and engaging in administrative or organizational
restructuring.
4. FINAL STAGE - Stage 4 begins when groups believe that they can no longer work within
the established system. Advocates or activists are faced with two options: to radically
change the existing system or to work outside the system.
SOCIILOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS

1. FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE - as its name suggests, examines the functions or

consequences of the structure of society. Functionalists use a macro perspective,
focusing on how society creates and maintains social order. Social problems are not
analyzed in terms of how “bad” they are for society. Rather, a functionalist asks, how
does the social problem emerge from society? Does the social problem serve a
function?
2. CONFLICT PERSPECTIVE - Like functionalism, conflict theories examine the macro level of
our society, its structures and institutions. Whereas functionalists argue that society is
held together by norms, values, and a common morality, those holding a conflict
perspective consider how society is held together by power and coercion for the benefit
of those in power. In this view, social problems emerge from the continuing conflict
between groups in our society—based on social class, gender, race, or ethnicity—and in
the conflict, the dominant groups usually win.
3. FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE – this explains that “feminist theory is not one, but many,
theories or perspectives and that each feminist theory or perspective attempts to
describe women’s oppression, to explain its causes and consequences, and to prescribe
strategies for women’s liberation” By analyzing the situations and lives of women in
society, the feminist perspective defines gender and other areas of oppression (i.e., race
and ethnicity, age, social class, sexual orientation, and disability) as the source of social
inequality, group conflict, and social problems. For feminists, the patriarchal society is
the basis of social problems.
4. INTERACTIONIST PERSPECTIVE - focuses on how we use language, words, and symbols
to create and maintain our social reality. This micro-level perspective highlights what we
take for granted: the expectations, rules, and norms that we learn and practice without
even noticing. In our interaction with others, we become the products and creators of
our social reality. Through our interaction, social problems are created and defined.

CRIME AND ITS NATURE

When social norms are violated, what, then, exists is a CRIME. It is an act committed or
omitted in violation of law. Men are expected to conform to societal pattern, which
have become highly structured and fixed. However, in reality, not all of the members of
a social group are strictly able to do so.
For one reason or another, they disobey the social norms and standards most
prominent of which are laws.
CRIME CATEGORIES

 Crimes against National Security and the Law of Nations

(Treason, espionage, mutiny and piracy)

 Crimes against Fundamental Laws of the State

(illegal detention, trespassing and domicile, prohibitions, interruption and dissolution of

peaceful meetings for redress of grievances)

 Crimes against Public Order

(jaywalking and illegal parking, rebellion and sedition)

 Crimes against Public Interest

(forgery, counterfeiting, falsification, posting as impostors, perjury and frauds)

 Crimes Related to Opium and Other Prohibited Drugs

 Crimes against Public Moral

(prostitutions and vagrancy)

 Crimes Committed by Public Officers

(dereliction of duty, bribery, malversation of public funds and frauds against the public treasury
or illegal evictions and transactions)

 Crimes against Persons

(parricide, infanticide, murder and homicide)

 Crimes against Personal Liberty and Security

(illegal detention by kidnapping of minors, slavery and servitude, exploitation of minors,

trespass to dwelling and threat and coercion)

 Crimes against Property

(robbery and theft, brigandage, usurpation, swindling, arson, malicious mischief and hijacking)

 Crimes against Chastity

(adultery, concubinage, rape, acts of lasciviousness, seduction and abduction)

  Crimes against Civil Status of Persons

(simulation of births, substitution of one child, usurpation of civil statuses and illegal marriage)

 Crimes against Honor

(Libel, slander or moral defamation)

THEORIES WHY CRIMES DO OCCUR:

 Classical Theory  Strain Theory

 Control Theory  Psychological Theory

 Differential Association and Social  Subcultural Theory

Learing
 Labeling Theory
 Societal Theory

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

Surely, crime is one of the most dreadful social illness. Violation of the law, however, is not only
confined to adult behavior. There are so called adult criminals and juvenile delinquent as well.

Juvenile delinquency deals with children, minor or youth, over nine years but under twenty one
years of age, who fail to do what the law requires.

Juvenile Delinquency is most often found in the following instances:

 Slum areas

 Families with parents characterized by drunkenness or criminality, ineffective household

management, economic difficulties and low-self respect

 Failure of children to experience a real home life

 Broken homes

 Lack of supervision of young people who roam the streets of most cities
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF CRIME

 Resort to all possible means to make the students strongly develop the sense of
belongingness in the school setting.

 Remind the students of the bad elements in society and the dangers associated with
such elements or even emulating them.

 Maintain a personality profile of each student

 Impress upon the students the values of honestly and integrity

 Take extra precaution labeling the students, particularly those who present problems
behavior.

 See to it that school rules and regulations are strictly and justly applied to every student,
no matter what his status in life is.

 Identify and clarify the value of responsibility and accountability, whether the thing in
questions is personal, private or public property.

 Inculcate among the students the sanctity of marriage and the family the indispensable
role played by the family and in nation-building.

 Train the students to be alert at all times as to their respective rights and duties as
citizens of the country

 Plan and implement co-curricular activities where the students can channel effectively
and productively their extra energy.

DRUG DEPENDENCE

A drug is defined as anything that frees one from a certain disease, either curing or
preventing them to occur. But if one takes it more than enough to cause him to exhibit
abnormal behavior or make him violate socially approved behavior, there is what we
called DRUG ABUSE
 DEPENDENCY PRODUCING DRUGS

 Sedatives / Depressants / Downers  Narcotics

 Stimulants / Uppers  Solvents

 Hallucinogens / Psychedelics  Shabu

Reasons why people become drug abusers:

 Socio-cultural deprivation  Identity Crisis

 Faulty Model and Learning  Cultural Correlates

 Pathogenic Family Patterns  Peer Group Association

ALCOHOL ABUSE

Alcohol abuse poses another danger to society. Alcoholism and alcohol abuse are 2
different things.Alcoholism is characterized by an inability to control one’s drinking
behavior while alcohol abuse is the use of alcohol to the point that problems develop
for the individual and possibly for his family and work

Alcohol related disease are cirrhosis of the liver or esophagus, injuries and death caused
by vehicle accidents

THE ADVENT OF SHABU

 “the addict’s favorite”

 “poor man’s drug”

 “tawas” looking

 methamphetamine hydrochloride

 It gives extraordinary spurt of energy that can last for a number of days

 Many claims it can make you smarter

 Many claims it can help for losing weight

 Shabu can cause serious personality disorder

  Shabu dependents tend to be very aggressive, antagonistic, irritable, suspicious, selfish
and paranoid

 Shabu dependents are susceptible to harsh and ill manner

 Heinous crimes, e.g., rape and bank robbery, and kidnapping for ransom, are perceived
to be committed by persons who are high in drugs

DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF DRUGS

 Drugs can damage man’s most precious attributes

 Drugs accumulate in fatty sections of the cells and fatty organs. The brain is one third
fat.

 Psychological impairments in a matter of months

 It has harmful effects on human cells

 Increased confusion of thinking, hostility toward authority, impaired memory,

diminished will power, shorten attention span, inability to deal with complex problems
and the dropout syndrome, which leads to dropping out of sports, dropping out of
school, dropping out of family.

EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF DRUG DEPENDENCE

 Take advantage of every possible opportunity to impress upon the students the evil
effects of drugs on the user himself and on society.

 Be on the look-out for drug dependents among the students and report them to their
parents.

 Maintain an atmosphere wherein the students feel that they belong to the group.

 Impart and exemplify to the students the sense of responsibility

 Acquaint the students with some practical pointers in the selection of people who will
comprise their peers.

 Make students understand the importance of social norms.

 Do everything possible to assist the students in developing a positive and realistic self
concept
 Make available appropriate class activities to help the students come out of their shells
and remove their inhibitions.

 Be observant

 If any one among the students has been positively identified as a drug dependent, bear
in mind that such individual has to be treated more like a patient who demands
treatment and not like a criminal.