Parent Category: Issues

Social Issues, is one of the important areas of sociological research, referring to the imbalance of social relations, the majority of the members of society to live together, and destruction of normal social activities impede the social phenomenon of social development. Is not only an objective existence, or the product of people's subjective constructs; perception, be aware of the situation; values, norms, and conflict of interest situation needs to be addressed; actual social status and social expectations gap.

Mainly refers to constitute the basic components or units of social problems. The constituent elements of social problems, social scientists have different views. RC Fuller, an American sociologist, believes that social problems are both objective and subjective factors. The former represents a threat to social security or situation; which most people in the community recognized this hazard, and organized them the desire to be addressed. Chinese sociologist Sun article also believes that social problems, including two First social life obstacles, First, social progress, obstacles. These two aspects determine the number of people involved in social issues, or all members of society, or for the community some of the members. In the late 1950s, American sociologist CW Mills distinguish two aspects of the personal troubles and public issues. He believes that the fad in the community, while also allowing individuals to deeply the problems of its victims are not necessarily social problems. Only beyond the individual special living environment related to human social life, institutional, or historical, the majority of the members of the threat to social values​​, interests, or living conditions, public issues, only to have the conditions for the formation of social problems.