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This document discusses social problems in India. It provides background information on India's population size and breakdown between urban and rural. It then defines what is meant by "social" and "problem" in this context. Some key characteristics of social problems are that they are situations that threaten society or impede important aspirations, involve behavior that violates social norms, and represent gaps between preferences and reality. Causes of social problems can be structural, individual, or cultural. The development of a social problem generally progresses through stages of emergence, legitimization, mobilization of action, and implementation of solutions.

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Module 1 - Isp

This document discusses social problems in India. It provides background information on India's population size and breakdown between urban and rural. It then defines what is meant by "social" and "problem" in this context. Some key characteristics of social problems are that they are situations that threaten society or impede important aspirations, involve behavior that violates social norms, and represent gaps between preferences and reality. Causes of social problems can be structural, individual, or cultural. The development of a social problem generally progresses through stages of emergence, legitimization, mobilization of action, and implementation of solutions.

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Introducing oneself

Where are you from?


What is your interest?
What social problem you are
interested to work on?
INDIAN SOCIAL HUM
PROBLEM
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SOCIAL PROBLEMS MODULE - 1


INDIA
STATES – 28
UNION TERRITORIES – 8
POPULATION – 1.35 BILLION (The current population of India is 1,381,715,400 as
of Monday, August 17, 2020, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United
Nations data) India population is equivalent to 17.7% of the total world population.
35.0 % of the population is urban (483,098,640 people in 2020)

(SOURCE : (https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/india-population/)
SOCIAL
Relating to society
What does social means here?
Health
Wealth
Education
Economic status
Living status
Family size
Religion
Culture
PROBLEM
Matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with
and overcome.

(source - https://www.lexico.com/definition/problem)
DEFINITIONS
E. Raab and G.J.Selznick - Social problem is “a problem in human relationship
which seriously threatens society itself or impedes the important aspirations of many
people.”
Merton and Nisbet define social problem as “A way of behaviour that is regarded by
a substantial part of society as being in violation of one or more generally accepted
or approved norms”.
According to Carr: “A social problem exists whenever we become conscious of a
difficulty, a gap between our preference and the reality”.
CHARACTERISTICS FEATURES
- All social problems are situations which have injurious consequences for society.
- All social problems are deviations from the “ideal” situation.
- All social problems have some common basis of origin.
- All social problems are social and political in origin.
- All social problems are caused by pathological social conditions.
- All social problems are interconnected.
- All social problems are social in their results – they affect all sections of society.
- The responsibility for social problems is social – they require a collective approach for their
solution.
- Social problems occur in all societies (Ahuja 2002: 5)
NEED TO BE CONSIDERED
- identifying
- interrelated
- understanding
- the person
- the place
- depth of the problem
- addressing
- collective action
TYPES

Social Economical

Cultural Political
CAUSES OF SOCIAL
PROBLEMS
Structural

Individual Cultural
STAGES IN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF A SOCIAL
PROBLEM
Fuller and Myers – Blumer – five stages in the Spector and Kitsuse
three stages through course of a social problem
1. Agitation
which a problem
passes in the process 1. Emergence of a problem
2. Legitimation
of being defined and 2. Legitimation of a problem and Capitation
solved
3. Mobilisation of action 3. Bureaucratizati
1. Awareness on and
4. Formulation of an official
2. Policy Reaction
plan
determinants
4. Re-emergence
3. Reform 5. Implementation of the plan
of the
movement

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