EP1-SOCI-3336 Assignment: Societal and Personal Problems

Societal and Personal Problems
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Societal and Personal Problems
Chapter 1. Understanding Social and Personal Problems
Societies have problems that affect their people. Experts define them as patterns of life that are opposite to practices and expectations of the existing population. These troubles are not easy to classify as personal or social without understanding (Marc, 2013). If people will have such understanding they will have ideas of solving them. This paper explains different problems in society, whether social or personal, their causes and the ways of dealing with them.
Major reason why social problems would require the participation of the public is because the results stir social conflicts. The structures of conflict theory and interactions assist to construct a model of influence andillustrate how social problems affect the quality of life. In doing so, the society should learn to recognize the fallacies of thinking, without which people will appear as mythmakers(Marc, 2013). These fallacies include dramatic instance, retrospective determinism, misplaced concreteness, personal attack, appeal to prejudice, circular reasoning, authority, composition, and non-sequitur.
To grasp the facts from myths, accurate gauging ofconcluded research bysocial scientists will be of help.The research should answer the questions asked and coming up with consistent results each time they are tried.
Chapter 2: Alcohol and Other Drugs
Alcohol, like other drugs, has different patterns of use in the society; responsible uses, abuse and addiction. It results in both health complications and social problem. 62% of Americans drink, 23% abuse the use and 30% admit to alcohol being a major source of trouble in their families (Alonso & Madrazo, 2014). Consequences are poor standards of life, low life expectancy,coronary and heart diseases. Worse still, the brain experiences premature aging as body parts like liver get damaged. Apart from health, other consequences aremotor accidentscaused by drunk driving.Alonso & Madrazo, (2014) adds that the psychological and interpersonal problems are like stress and trauma in the family and the economic stretch the family finances are subjected to.
People are influenced into drinking because of the social structural and psychological conditions. An example is an adolescent who is influenced by the peers. Some originate from families like drinking parents, disturbances and sense of powerlessness. As Marc (2013) suggests, alcoholism can be ended if it is treated as a societal issue, bringing in strict laws to help regulate the rate of intake. Both individual and group therapy for the drinkers will be of help.
There are other drugs like cannabinoids, hallucinogens amongst others. The worry today is the increased use of a wide variety of such drugs. They abuse the well-being and psychological fitness of the people and heavy economic effect. Finally, the problems should be handled in twofold. Reducing the demand for drugs and then the supply will decrease (Alonso & Madrazo, 2014). Researchers agree that in as much as there should be an individual solution, examination of leakages by communal con...